Jan 3, 2022 | Anti-Intellectualism, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Capitol Riot, Christian Ethics, Christian Right, Civility, Conservative Evangelicals, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Evolution, Fascism, Insurrection, Israel, January 6, 2021, Peter Enns, Political Rhetoric, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Roe v. Wade, Secularism, Slavery, Social Media |
by Terry Defoe Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 carry a flag saying “Jesus is my Savior. Trump is my President.” Image by Selcuk Acar via The New Republic. Pastor Terry Defoe is an emeritus member of the clergy who served congregations in...
Dec 15, 2021 | Allosaurus, Answers in Genesis, Barack Obama, Capitol Riot, Congressional Disclosure, Congressional Hearings, Congressional Jurisdiction, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Dana Forbes, Donald Trump, Doug Phillips' Vision Forum, Ebenezer, Elections, Historical Science, Insurrection, January 6, 2021, Joe Biden, Joe Taylor, Mark Meadows, Michael Peroutka, Observational Science, Peroutka Foundation, Pete DeRosa's Creation Expeditions, Politics, Raising the Allosaur, Righting America, Science, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence, Trump Supporters, Uncategorized, Voter Fraud, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Insurrectionists enter the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021. Photo by: John Minchillo (Associated Press) An evangelical young Earth creationist played a central role in Donald Trump’s coup attempt? Not a shock. Late last night the House of...
Sep 20, 2021 | #BlackLivesMatter, #ChurchToo, #MeToo Movement, Active-Passivism, American Democracy, American Exceptionalism, American History, Beth Moore, Christian Nationalism, Citizenship, Clifford Geertz, Complementarian Theology, Conservatism, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Digital Church, Digital Rhetorical Ethnography, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Founder's Rhetoric, Gender Roles, History and Politics, John Fea, Megachurches, Narrative Patterns, Religious Rhetorics, Republicans, Samuel Perry, Southern Baptist Convention, Stephanie A. Martin, Thomas Frank, Trump Supporters, Uncategorized |
by Patrick Thomas Sam (Stephanie A. Martin) is a scholar of public address and political communication, with a particular interest in the public discourses of conservative social movements, especially evangelical voters. She has written or edited three books, most...
Sep 13, 2021 | Anthea Butler, Black Churches, Black Evangelicals, Capitalism, Capitol Riot, Christian Blackness, Conservative Evangelicals, Dara Coleby Delgado, Darrell Scott, Donald Trump, Donatism, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelicals, Insurrection, Jimmy Swaggart, National Association of Evangelicals, National Diversity Coalition, Pentecostal Charismatics, Political Theology Network, Prosperity Gospel, Prosperity Theology, Racism, Religion and Politics, Salvation, St. Augustine, T.D. Jakes, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals |
by Dara Coleby Delgado Dara Coleby Delgado is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Black Studies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. Coleby Delgado is a third-generation Pentecostal, reared in the Apostolic/Oneness tradition. In 2019, she completed her...
Sep 6, 2021 | American Creationism, Answers in Genesis, Anticommunism, Bodie Hodge, Butler Act, Carl R. Weinberg, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Creationism, Culture War, Darwin, David Goldstein, Donald Trump, Evolution, Frederick Engels, George McCready Price, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Science, J. Frank Norris, John Scopes, Karl Marx, Ken Ham, Labor Battles, Martha Moore Avery, Marxism, Red Dynamite, Religion and Science, Robert Jeffress, Satanism, Science, Scopes Trial, Secularism, Social Evolution, Socialism, William Bell Riley, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Book Cover for Carl R. Weinberg’s Red Dynamite: Creationism: Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (2021, Cornell University Press) Carl R. Weinberg is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor...
Aug 19, 2021 | Biblical Literalism, Charles Murray, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Inerrancy, Jimmy Carter, Lance Wallnau, M.L. Mencken, Religion and Politics, Religious Rhetorics, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Southern Voters, The Immaculate Mistake, The Media, Uncategorized, 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. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton...
