Sep 15, 2026 | Adam Laats, Carl Ruby, Cedarville University, Central Christian Church, Donald Trump, Evangelical Colleges, Evangelical Leaders, Fundamentalism, Haitians, ICE, Immigration, J.D. Vance, James Dobson, Ken Ham, KKK-Fundamentalism, Pierre Damas Bel, Red Letter Christians, Safe Schools, Springfield, Ohio, Temporary Protected Status, Viles Dorsainvil, Welcome Springfield |
by William Trollinger Image of Pierre Damas Bel via CNN. On June 25 of this year the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could end Temporary Protected Status for citizens of Haiti, thus allowing the government to deport them despite the reality that...
Sep 1, 2026 | Albert Mohler, American History, Anti-Immigration, Ark Encounter, Casey Ryan Kelly, Civil War, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, David Barton, Deportation, Donald Trump, Donovan Shaefer, Doug Wilson, Emotion, Eric Metaxas, Founder's Rhetoric, Founding Fathers, James Fishback, Jim Crow, John Fea, Joshua Gunn, Junk Food, MAGA, Mariann Budde, Mark Kelly, Melancholy, Nostalgia, Outrage, Plato, Randall Balmer, Resentment, Revisionism, Robert E. Lee, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Sean Feucht, Shame, Slavoj Zizek, Toxic Masculinity, Trump Supporters, Voting Rights, W.E.B. DuBois, White Christian Nationalism, William Bell Riley |
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 27, 2026 | 17th Amendment, 19th Amendment, Albert Mohler, American History, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Immigration, Brian Kaylor, Brooks Potteiger, Church and State, Citizenship, Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, Confederacy, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Doug Wilson, Islamophobia, Jared Longshore, Joe Rigney, Paul Miller, Pete Hegseth, Religious Discrimination, The Religion of American Greatness, White Christian Nationalism, Word&Way, Zohran Mamdani |
By Brian Kaylor Editor’s Note: Rev. Brian Kaylor is editor of Word and Way. This post appeared originally in the Word and Way enewsletter, A Public Witness, and is reposted here by permission. Doug Wilson, a Christian Nationalist pastor in Idaho and a self-described...
Aug 11, 2026 | American Democracy, Anne Applebaum, Anti-Immigration, Authoritarian Populism, Bill Cassidy, CIA, Communism, Converts, Cornel West, Critical Thinking, Cult, David Blight, David French, David Livingstone Smith, Deep State, Demagoguery, Democracy, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelical Leaders, FBI, God Complex, Jim Jones, Jimmy Kimmel, John Cornyn, Jonestown, Ken Paxton, MAGA, MAGA Evangelicals, Marjorie Taylor Greene, McCarthyism, Militarism, Neo-Fascism, Nick Cattogio, Obedience, Paralipsis, Reflecting Pool, Rodney Kennedy, Roy Cohn, Scapegoating, Sean Wilentz, Suicide, Thomas Edsall, Thomas Massie, Timothy Snyder, Trump Supporters, White Christian Nationalism, 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...
May 15, 2026 | Adolf Hitler, Anti-Immigration, Biblical Interpretation, Caesar, Church and State, Donald Trump, First Baptist Church of Dallas, Georges Florosky, John Fea, MAGA Preachers, Paul, Pope Leo XIV, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Romans 13, Stanley Hauerwas |
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...
Apr 30, 2026 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Donald Trump, Jeffery Epstein, Jesus, Ken Ham, Paula White, Prosperity Gospel, QAnon, Roger Patterson, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger An AI-generated image of Donald Trump as Jesus, which Trump posted to Truth Social. Image via Yahoo. Over the past three decades, I have had the great privilege of teaching M.A./Ph.D. seminars on American evangelicalism/fundamentalism in the...
