Jul 23, 2021 | Areligious, Capitol Riot, Census of American Religion, Christian Right, Climate Change, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Immigration, Insurrection, James Heft, S.M., Jan Stets, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jesus, LGBT Issues, Politics, Racism, Religion and Politics, Religious Non-Affiliation, Religious Rhetorics, White Evangelicals, White Jesus |
by William Trollinger Update: This post is republished over at Red Letter Christians on July 30, 2021. A participant in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol poses with a Bible. Image credit: John Minchillo/AP via Word and Way . The headlines tell the...
Jul 1, 2021 | Abortion, American History, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Catholicism, Civil Rights Movement, Clergy Abuse Crisis, Conscience, Conscientious Objector, Contraception, Culture War, Divorce, Follow Your Conscience, History, Humana Vitae, Joe Biden, LGBT Issues, Moral Formation, Patrick O’Boyle, Pete Cajka, Politics, Religion and Politics, Secularism, Shane MacCarthy, Thomas Aquinas, Vietnam War |
by William Trollinger Peter Cajka is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. from Boston College, and before that he was an undergraduate student here at the University of Dayton, where I...
Jun 23, 2021 | ACLU, Albert Mohler, Apocalypticism, Cedarville University, Culture War, Demonized Populism, Evangelical Rhetoric, Fundamentalism, Historical Science, History and Politics, Michael J Lee, Politics, Populism, Purity, Restorationism, Rhetoric, Richard Hofstadter, Rodney Kennedy, Socialism, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, The Cedarville Interpreter |
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)...
Feb 12, 2021 | Adam and Eve, Adam Laats, American Creationism, Among the Creationists, Answers in Genesis, Bernard Ramm, Bill Nye, Capitol Riot, Creation Science, Creationism, Creationism USA, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evolution, Fundamentalist U, Genesis, Henry Morris, Higher Education, Historical Science, Insurrection, Jerry A. Coyne, John C. Whitcomb, Observational Science, Old Earth Creationism, Radical Creationism, Republicans, Righting America, Science, Trump Supporters, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Book cover for Adam Laats’ forthcoming Creationism USA: Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2021) Adam Laats has established himself as a brilliant and prolific scholar who has produced such noteworthy works...
Dec 7, 2020 | Cedarville University, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Immigration, Madison Cawthorn, Politics, Sarah Jones, Sexual Violence, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Evangelical leaders pray over Trump in the Oval Office. Photo via The Chicago Tribune (2017). “What does it profit a faith to gain a whole country and then lose it, along with its own soul?” (Sarah Jones) Four years ago, just after the...
Nov 30, 2020 | Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Bill O'Reilly, Christmas, Culture War, Earl Crown, Fox News, Hays Code, It's a Wonderful Life, James Dobson, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Godfather, War on Christmas |
by Earl Crown Earl Crown is a doctoral student and graduate assistant in American Studies at Penn State Harrisburg, where he also teaches United States history. He holds degrees from Messiah University (B.A. in History, 1995) and McDaniel College (M.L.A., 2012). His...
