Apr 13, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalist U, University of Dayton |
by William Trollinger If you want to understand why 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, schools are a very good place to start. Here at the University of Dayton (UD) approximately 60 people – faculty and students from UD as well as from local evangelical...
Jan 29, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, White Evangelicals |
by Adam Laats with William Trollinger Adam Laats’ eagerly anticipated book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, comes out next week from Oxford University Press. We have posed a few questions for Adam about his book, and in this post and...
Oct 24, 2017 | Christian Right, Donald Trump, Fundamentalism, intolerance, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Righting America, Westboro Baptist Church |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox with William Trollinger In Righting America we note that “in the twenty-first century, the study of American fundamentalism has really come into its own, with a surfeit of outstanding works, many of which pay close attention to economics and...
Oct 16, 2017 | Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelicals, Joel Osteen, Prosperity Gospel, White Evangelicals |
by Emily McGowin Emily Hunter McGowin has a PhD in theology from the University of Dayton and MDiv from Truett Seminary. Her work is at the intersection of religion, theology, and ethnography. Her first book, Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical...
Sep 25, 2017 | Anti-Semitism, Biblical Interpretation, Christian Right, Church, Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelicals, Israel, Racism |
by Emily McGowin Emily Hunter McGowin has a PhD in theology from the University of Dayton and MDiv from Truett Seminary. Her work is at the intersection of religion, theology, and ethnography. Her first book, Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical...
Sep 1, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Racism, Randall Balmer, Righting America, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger In a blistering August 23 LA Times op-ed historian Randall Balmer makes the case that contemporary American evangelicalism is an ethical disaster. One example is the fact that in the 2016 election 81% of white evangelicals voted for a man who...
