Jan 14, 2019 | #MeToo Movement, Adam Laats, Areligious, Ark Encounter Attendance, Blog Updates, Corinth Presbyterian Church, Donald Trump, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelical Education, Faithland Map, Feminism, Flood Geology, Gender Roles, Herbie Miller, Immigration, Joel Osteen, Margaret Bendroth, Moody Bible Institute, Paige Patterson, Southern Baptist Convention, Taylor University, Tim Gloege, Zach Spidel |
by William Trollinger Faithland map, 2018. Created by Alex Egoshin using data provided by the Association of Religion Data Archives. 2018 was significant for the rightingamerica blog, both in the variety of authors’ voices and topics featured, and the number of...
Nov 29, 2018 | American Historian, Christian Right, Christianity Today, Elesha Coffman, John Fea, Laura Jane Gifford, Lerone Martin, Politics, R. Marie Griffith, Rodney Kennedy, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger We have said it again and again, but the emergence of the Christian Right as the GOP’s most reliable constituency AND then – most dramatically – the election of Donald Trump as president has resulted in all sorts of very smart people looking...
Sep 29, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Calvin College, Christian Colleges, Congregational Library, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Gender Roles, Institutional Religion, Margaret Bendroth, Righting America, Southern Baptist Convention |
by Margaret Bendroth One thing that the #MeToo movement and the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings have made blindingly clear is that sexual harassment/abuse is not simply or even primarily a matter of abusive individuals. Instead, it is very much about institutions – be they...
Jul 9, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Adam Laats, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelicals, J.D. Greear, Paige Patterson, Rodney Kennedy, Southern Baptist Convention, Wheaton College |
With the May 2018 firing of Paige Patterson as president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) the #MeToo movement hit the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) full force. But in response a group of wealthy donors – pledging their “absolute and...
Jul 5, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Adam Laats, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Fundamentalist U, J.D. Greear, Margaret Bendroth, Paige Patterson, Southern Baptist Convention |
by William Trollinger It appears the battle in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is just beginning. And that is not a surprise. At the most recent SBC convention in Dallas the moderate (or, somewhat less conservative) forces seemed to have carried the day, with...
Jun 12, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Andy Savage, Bill Hybels, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Gender Roles, John Howard Yoder, Jr., Karl Barth, Paige Patterson, Paul Tillich, Southern Baptist Convention |
by Elesha Coffman Today’s post is written by Elesha Coffman, assistant professor of history at Baylor University and author of The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline (Oxford). She is a graduate of Wheaton College and Duke University. First off,...
