Apr 20, 2018 | Alec MacGillis, Cleveland.com, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Kristen Tobey, Michael Massing, Rodney Hessinger, Sarah Jones, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times |
by William Trollinger One of the few benefits of the Donald Trump presidency that many smart journalists and scholars are now writing about white evangelicals in an effort to understand these Christians who make up his most loyal constituency. The challenge is that so...
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...
Apr 9, 2018 | Adam Laats, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalist U, Taylor University, University of Dayton, Wheaton College |
by Adam Laats Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History (by courtesy) at Binghamton University (State University of New York). His most recent book – which just came out – is Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education (Oxford UP). His...
Apr 6, 2018 | Christian Colleges, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Excalibur, intolerance, Taylor University |
by William Trollinger In looking at Excalibur – the self-advertised “publication of the Taylor University conservative underground” — here is what we see: The authors of Excalibur claim that – because of “our current cultural climate” as well as “leftist trends”...
Apr 2, 2018 | Christian Colleges, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Excalibur, intolerance, Taylor University |
by William Trollinger The headline in Christianity Today says it all: “Taylor University Still Shaken by Unsanctioned Conservative Newspaper.” Founded in 1847, Taylor is now an independent Christian college of approximately 1900 undergraduate students located in...
Mar 9, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Biblical Literalism, Bryan Osborne, Creation Science, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Righting America, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger In the end, is the point to make it possible for evangelicals not to think? Bryan Osborne of Answers in Genesis (AiG) has recently explained the organization’s purpose thusly: The revelation that the Bible’s plain history is true, that...
