Apr 14, 2025 | American Historical Association, American History, Department of Government Efficiency, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Lincoln School Story, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ohio Humanities Council, Public Humanities |
by William Trollinger KKK members gather in Dayton, Ohio on July 24, 1923. Image via Dayton Metro Library. On April 03 the Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) sent an email – from a nongovernmental email address (which meant that many of these emails ended up...
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...
Feb 3, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American Historical Association, American History, Black Reconstruction, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Communism, Constitution, Culture War, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Fascism, History and Politics, Indoctrination, Jerry Davis, John C. Calhoun, Kevin Kruse, Reconstruction, Slavery |
by William Trollinger Last Wednesday the Trump Administration issued an executive order entitled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” which has as its goal to end “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in...
Jan 23, 2025 | American Exceptionalism, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Communism, Conservative Evangelicals, Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, Culture War, David Barton, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Francis Schaeffer, Henry Morris, History, Humanism, John Birch Society, Left Behind, McCarthyism, Megachurches, Paul Braterman, Project 2025, Pseudoscience, Reaganism, Russell Vought, Scientific Creationism, Six-Day Creation, The Genesis Flood, The Wallbuilders, Tim LaHaye, Trump Supporters, White Christian Nationalism, Wokeness, Young Earth Creationism |
by Paul Braterman Paul Braterman is Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, University of North Texas, and Honorary Research Fellow (formerly Reader) at the University of Glasgow. His research has involved topics related to the early Earth and the origins of life, and...
Dec 30, 2024 | A Theology for the Social Gospel, Acts of the Apostles, Anabaptists, Black Freedom Movement, Black Prophetic Tradition, C. Kavin Rowe, Christian Nationalism, Conservative Evangelicals, Cornel West, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frederick Douglass, Harold S. Bender, Harriet Tubman, Hyper-Nationalism, Immigration, James W. McClendon, MAGA, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michel Foucault, Parrhesia, Progressive Christians, Progressive Protestantism, Social Gospel, Social Justice, Sojourner Truth, Stanley Hauerwas, The Anabaptist Vision, Trump Supporters, Walter Rauschenbusch |
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...
Dec 3, 2024 | Abortion, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Intellectualism, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Gay Marriage, George Lakoff, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, History, Ken Ham, Kevin Kruse, Moral Majority, Newt Gingrich, Racism, Randall Balmer, School Prayer, Scopes Trial, Temperance, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
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...
