Nov 18, 2017 | AAR, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Museums |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger We are off to the American Academy of Religion (AAR) annual meeting in Boston, where at 4 PM on Saturday we are participating in a roundtable discussion on the topic, “Museums and the Public Understanding of Religion: Sacred...
Nov 7, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Anticommunism, Carl R. Weinberg, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evolution, Fundamentalism, History, Politics |
by Carl Weinberg Today’s post comes from Dr. Carl R. Weinberg. Weinberg is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion:...
Nov 1, 2017 | Ark Encounter, Creation Museum |
by Susan Trollinger Here at rightingamerica Sue and Bill decided to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting the 95 Theses by taking Sue’s Visual Rhetoric class and Bill’s Protestant Christianity seminar on a field trip to two of the most remarkable...
Sep 18, 2017 | Bodie Hodge, Christian Colleges, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, History, Moody Bible Institute, Righting America, Tim Gloege |
by Tim Gloege and William Trollinger In the “Suggested Readings” section of Righting America (313-316) we note that “in the twenty-first century, the study of American fundamentalism has really come into its own, with a surfeit of outstanding works, many of which pay...
Sep 7, 2017 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Evolution, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Ken Ham, Righting America, Science |
by Adam Laats Today, our colleague Adam Laats continues his exploration of the history of young earth creationism as a doctrine of evangelical colleges and universities. As he demonstrates below, in the last century creationist colleges have wrestled with many...
Aug 25, 2017 | American Athiests, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Righting America |
by William Trollinger Saturday at the American Atheists Convention in North Charleston involved twelve back-to-back presentations in the (ice-cold) Marriott ballroom. Besides those mentioned in our last post, there were also presentations on: “The Threat of a...
