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...
Nov 4, 2024 | American Democracy, Barack Obama, Brian L Ott, David Blight, Dissent, Donald Trump, Flannery O'Connor, Greg Dickinson, Hush Harbors, James C. Scott, Jim Crow, Jonathan Haidt, Maggie Haberman, Patrick Healy, Racism, Robert L. Ivie, Social Media, Vorris L. Nunley, White Evangelical Racism, White Men, White Privilege, White Supremacy, Zora Neale Hurston |
by Rodney Kennedy 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...
Jan 28, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American History, Anticommunism, Arkansas, Black Reconstruction, Capitol Riot, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Cold War, College of the Ozarks, Communism, Confederacy, Confederate Statues, Constitution, Constitutional Convention, David Blight, Declaration of Independence, Donald Trump, Fascism, Franklin Roosevelt, Higher Education, Hillsdale College, History, History and Politics, Insurrection, Jerry Davis, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Mussolini, New Deal, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Revisionism, Slavery, Socialism, Strom Thurmond, Teddy Roosevelt, Tom Cotton, Uncategorized, W.E.B. DuBois, White Nationalism, White Supremacy, Woodrow Wilson, World War II |
by William Trollinger An escaped slave named Peter showing his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. Library of Congress. Martin Luther King’s February 12 1965 speech in Selma, Alabama. Horace Cort/AP. The 1619 Project – the...
Jan 5, 2021 | Ad Hominem Attacks, American History, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Civil War, Confederate Statues, David Blight, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Georgia Purdom, History, Jim Crow, Lost Cause Discourse, Reconstruction, Rhetoric, Righting America, Secession, Slavery, Visual Rhetoric, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger Statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, VA. Photo by Salwan Georges of The Washington Post (2020) The other day, I was reading David Blight’s fine book, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, in preparation for a project that I am going...
