Oct 11, 2021 | Amish, Amish Country Theater, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Evangelicals, Evolution, Janet Kellogg Ray, Masking, Religion and Science, Righting America, Science, Selling the Amish, Tourism, Vaccination, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Promotional photo for the Amish Country Theater (2021) Every other year my wife Sue teaches a course here at the University of Dayton (UD) entitled “The Arguments and Visual Rhetoric of Two Religious Traditions.” Not surprisingly, the two...
Sep 27, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Creation Museum, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ken Ham’s Facebook page requesting donations for Ark Encounter and Creation Museum Building projects. Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis (AiG) are busy promoting the idea that the “Ark Encounter and Creation Museum Are Groaning”...
Jun 2, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Flood Geology, Genetics, Genocide, Historical Science, Mark Etter, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, Wickedness, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Image from The Bible Panorama, or The Holy Scripture in Picture and Story (1891). Image via Wikimedia Commons. “Off the rails” doesn’t begin to describe the state of fundamentalist apologetics. Take, for example, young Earth creationism. Its...
May 18, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Illiteracy, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Critical Race Theory, Dan Phelps, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Howard Thurman, Intersectionality, Jesus, John Lewis, Judgment, Katheryn Pfisterer Darr, Ken Ham, Luke Timothy Johnson, Martin Luther King, Ralph Abernathy, Righting America, Sexual Orientation, Social Justice, Statement of Faith, Tax Breaks, White Evangelicals, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Image via abc7Chicago.com. Every time I think that things can’t get worse at Answers in Genesis (AiG), they do. The ever-intrepid Dan Phelps has noticed that on March 05, 2021 AiG replaced their original...
Mar 29, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Barry Hankins, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, Christianity Today, Climate Skeptics, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, David Barton, Devil, Donald Trump, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, First Baptist Church of Dallas, Franklin Graham, Fundamentalism, Islamophobia, J. Frank Norris, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jerry Falwell, Sr., John Fea, Ken Ham, Kenneth R. Miller, Liberty University, Pat Robertson, Paula White, Politics, Rapture Ideology, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Robert Jeffress, Young Earth Creationism |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Mar 16, 2021 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Capitalism, Christian Right, Collaborative on Faith and Disability, Creation Museum, Developmental Disabilities, Down Syndrome, Dwarfism, Inclusive Employment, Nancy L. Eiesland, Pro-Life, Putting Faith to Work, Reason Bans, Roe v. Wade, Supercrips, The Disabled God |
by John Parrett John Parrett received his M.A. in Theological Studies from the University of Dayton. Before that, he graduated from Wilmington College with a Bachelor’s of Arts with a double major in History and Religion/Philosophy. While pursuing his master’s degree,...