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Looking In From the Outside: Evangelical Colleges and Donald Trump

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...

The Perilous Challenge of Keeping Evangelical Colleges Safely Orthodox

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...

Pure Fundamentalism, Guaranteed: Part One

by Tim Gloege and William Trollinger In the “Suggested Readings” section of Righting America (313-316) 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...

The Evolution of Creationism in American Higher Education: Part 2

by Adam Laats Today, our colleague Adam Laats continues his exploration of the history of young earth creationism as a doctrine of evangelical colleges and universities. As he demonstrates below, in the last century creationist colleges have wrestled with many...