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by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Teacher John Scopes (left), and crowds outside the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Image via The Vintage News. Here we are, at the centenary of the Scopes Trial. And last week was very much a Scopes week. On Tuesday...
Mar 10, 2025 | Anabaptists, Andre Chouraqui, Baptist News Global, Book of Common Prayer, Culture War, Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit, David Blight, Democracy, Donald Trump, Doxology, Dualism, Enlightenment, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evolution, Francis Collins, Frederick Douglass, Freeman Dyson, George Lakoff, Harold Bloom, History, Jane Kenyon, Kenneth R. Miller, Lewis Thomas, MAGA, Mary Oliver, Metaphor, Michel Foucault, Mona Van Duyn, Ordinary Time, Otis Moss, Jr., Parrhesia, Poetry, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Walter Brueggemann, Walter Rauschenbusch, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...
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by Dan Phelps Note: This article originally appeared at Panda’s Thumb. We are pleased to republish it here with the author’s and editor’s approval. Back in 2020, the Kentucky State Police (KSP) were embroiled in a controversy after it was discovered that a training...
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by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ray Comfort’s Living Waters Ministry video, “Hollywood Mocks God, Then This Happens”. Image via YouTube. It is striking – but not surprising – how often fundamentalist leaders and preachers proclaim that this or...
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by William Trollinger Last Wednesday the Trump Administration issued an executive order entitled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” which has as its goal to end “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in...
Jan 23, 2025 | American Exceptionalism, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Communism, Conservative Evangelicals, Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, Culture War, David Barton, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Francis Schaeffer, Henry Morris, History, Humanism, John Birch Society, Left Behind, McCarthyism, Megachurches, Paul Braterman, Project 2025, Pseudoscience, Reaganism, Russell Vought, Scientific Creationism, Six-Day Creation, The Genesis Flood, The Wallbuilders, Tim LaHaye, Trump Supporters, White Christian Nationalism, Wokeness, Young Earth Creationism |
by Paul Braterman Paul Braterman is Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, University of North Texas, and Honorary Research Fellow (formerly Reader) at the University of Glasgow. His research has involved topics related to the early Earth and the origins of life, and...
