Oct 23, 2018 | Certainty, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Hillary Clinton, Identification, intolerance, Kenneth Burke, Politics, Rhetoric |
by Camille Kaminski Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies....
Oct 17, 2018 | Certainty, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Evolution, Francis Collins, intolerance, Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, Richard Lischner, Richard Weaver |
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)...
Oct 13, 2018 | Andre Johnson, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Jim Wallis, Mark Masthay, Martin Medhurst, Red Letter Christians, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Everyone got woke in the 2016 election.” So said Andre Johnson – Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address at the University of Memphis – at the final keynote panel at last weekend’s Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st-Century Conference...
Oct 9, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apocalypse, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Biblical Literalism, Brett Kavanaugh, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Donald Trump, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Gender Roles, Global Warming, Inerrancy, Judgment, Museums, Natural and Ordinary Amendment, Religious Rhetorics, Righting America, Voyage Room, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger On the Saturday that Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate as the newest justice on the Supreme Court, it was energizing and therapeutic to be in the company of smart and gracious scholars devoted to studying and explaining religious...
Jul 27, 2018 | Donald Trump, Politics, Racism, Seth Dowland, Stephanie McCrummen, White Evangelicals |
William Trollinger Thanks to the fact that an overwhelming percentage of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump and continue to enthusiastically support him – hush money to porn actresses and obeisance to Vladimir Putin notwithstanding – many smart journalists and...
Jul 23, 2018 | Apologetics, Apostles of Reason, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Donald Trump, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Historical Science, Molly Worthen, Observational Science, On Tyrrany, Presuppositionalism, Righting America, Timothy Snyder, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism |
William Trollinger The fundamentalist bubble is not simply a matter of separate schools, institutions, and media. It is also a matter of separate ideas that cannot be challenged or disputed or proven untrue. It is a matter of impregnable presuppositions. At the...