Nov 18, 2025 | Adam Laats, Age of the Earth, Andrew Carnegie, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Creation Museum, David Barton, David Blight, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Donald Trump, Emotion, Evangelical History, Frederick Douglass, Herbert McCabe, Higher Education, History, History and Politics, Jill Lepore, Jim Crow, John Rockefeller, Lauren Berlant, Lynn Hunt, MAGA, MAGA Evangelicals, Memory, Paula White, Pepe the Frog, PragerU, Pseudoarcheology, Reconstruction, Robert Jeffress, Robert Penn Warren, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregation, Thurgood Marshall, White Supremacy |
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...
Oct 21, 2025 | Donald Trump, Franklin Roosevelt, Geneva Convention, Good Neighbor Policies, Good Samaritan, Government Shutdown, Great Depression, Immigration, Individualism, Japanese Internment, MAGA Evangelicals, Mary Stuckey, Neighborliness, New Deal, Nihilism, Pete Hegseth, Pragmatism, Reaganism, Robert Ivie, Robert McElvaine, Rodney Kennedy, Scarcity, Toxic Masculinity |
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...
Sep 30, 2025 | Anti-Gay Hate, Casey Ryan Kelly, Certainty, Conservative Evangelicals, Critical Race Theory, Cruel Optimism, Demagoguery, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, Flannery O'Connor, MAGA, Paul Elliott Johnson, Pete Hegseth, Religion and Politics, Robert E. Terrill, Rodney Kennedy, Salvation, Sardis, Secularism, Shannon Sullivan, Sheol, Toxic Masculinity, Trump Supporters, White Men |
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...
Aug 19, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, Abolition, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Founder's Rhetoric, Fugitive Slave Act, Inherent Rights, Insurrection, January 6, 2021, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Jr., Reconstruction, Second Ku Klux Klan, Slavery, Systemic Racism, Voting Rights, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Below is an excerpt of an essay of mine that was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, an issue which is devoted to white Christian nationalism and education. A link to the complete article can...
Aug 12, 2025 | Anti-Immigration, Barack Obama, Culture War, Dana White, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, History, January 6, 2021, Kamala Harris, MAGA, Martin Luther King, Jr., Parrhesia, Rodney Kennedy, Sermon on the Mount, South Park, Trump Supporters, Trump Truth, Ukraine, White Evangelicals |
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...
Jul 8, 2025 | Armageddon, Caryle Marney, Christian Nationalism, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Dispensational Premillennialism, Dome of the Rock, Donald Trump, End Times, Ezekiel, Iran, Israel, Josephus, MAGA, Mike Huckabee, Paul Boyer, Rapture Ideology, Red Heifer, Rodney Kennedy, Six-Day War, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals, Will Campbell, Zealots |
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...