Dec 2, 2025 | Anti-Racism, Brenda Wineapple, Civil Rights Movement, Dayton, Evangelical History, Evolution, Glenn Branch, History, History and Politics, Jerry Bergman, Journal of Creation, Journal of Negro History, Lynching, National Center for Science Education, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Teddy Roosevelt, The Other Side of the Scopes Trial, White Evangelical Racism, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson |
by William Trollinger Burning of 80 ft. cross, KKK, August 9, 1925. Jerry Bergman’s campaign to invent an anti-racist William Jennings Bryan continues apace. This time, it involves a review of Brenda Wineapple’s best-selling book on the Scopes Trial. It is...
Nov 18, 2025 | Adam Laats, Age of the Earth, Andrew Carnegie, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Creation Museum, David Barton, David Blight, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Donald Trump, Emotion, Evangelical History, Frederick Douglass, Herbert McCabe, Higher Education, History, History and Politics, Jill Lepore, Jim Crow, John Rockefeller, Lauren Berlant, Lynn Hunt, MAGA, MAGA Evangelicals, Memory, Paula White, Pepe the Frog, PragerU, Pseudoarcheology, Reconstruction, Robert Jeffress, Robert Penn Warren, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregation, Thurgood Marshall, White Supremacy |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...
Jan 23, 2025 | American Exceptionalism, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Communism, Conservative Evangelicals, Conspiracy Theories, Creationism, Culture War, David Barton, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Francis Schaeffer, Henry Morris, History, Humanism, John Birch Society, Left Behind, McCarthyism, Megachurches, Paul Braterman, Project 2025, Pseudoscience, Reaganism, Russell Vought, Scientific Creationism, Six-Day Creation, The Genesis Flood, The Wallbuilders, Tim LaHaye, Trump Supporters, White Christian Nationalism, Wokeness, Young Earth Creationism |
by Paul Braterman Paul Braterman is Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, University of North Texas, and Honorary Research Fellow (formerly Reader) at the University of Glasgow. His research has involved topics related to the early Earth and the origins of life, and...
Dec 3, 2024 | Abortion, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Intellectualism, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Gay Marriage, George Lakoff, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, History, Ken Ham, Kevin Kruse, Moral Majority, Newt Gingrich, Racism, Randall Balmer, School Prayer, Scopes Trial, Temperance, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...
Oct 22, 2024 | 29 Evidences for Evolution, 3 Quarks Daily, Answers in Genesis, Apocalypticism, Biblical Authority, Biblical Literalism, Biblical Marriage, Carl Weinberg, Christian Nationalism, Christian Schooling, Church and State, Conservative Evangelicals, Conservative Ideology, Cornwall Alliance, Creation Ministries International, Creation Science, Creationism, Critical Race Theory, Dispensational Premillennialism, Donald Trump, E. Calvin Beisner, Evangelical History, Evolution, Flood Geology, Gay Marriage, Heartland Institute, Henry Morris, Heritage Foundation, Historical Science, History of Science, Homeschooling, Index of Creationist Claims, Institute for Creation Science, Intersectionality, John C. Whitcomb, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Identity, LGBTQ+ Rights, Man-made Climate Change, Marriage, Mike Johnson, Observational Science, Paul Braterman, Presuppositionalism, Project 2025, Red Dynamite, Religion and History, Safe Schools, Scientific Creationism, Secularism, Social Justice, Statement of Faith, The Bible and Modern Science, The Genesis Flood, The Lie, Tolerance, Wokeness, Young Earth Creationism |
by Paul Braterman Paul Braterman is Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, University of North Texas, and Honorary Research Fellow (formerly Reader) at the University of Glasgow. His research has involved topics related to the early Earth and the origins of life, and...
Mar 21, 2024 | Anti-Vaxxers, Apocalypticism, Billy Graham, Charlie Kirk, Christian Nationalism, Clay Clark, Conspiracy Theories, COVID-19, Culture War, David Barton, Donald Trump, Eric Metaxas, Evangelical History, Evangelical Industrial Complex, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, First Baptist Church of Dallas, Greg Locke, Jim Wright, Liberty University, Michael Flynn, Miroslav Volf, Rachel Denhollander, Ralph Reed, ReAwaken America Tour, Religion and Politics, Robert Jeffress, Rush Limbaugh, Russell Moore, Southern Baptist Convention, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Tim Alberta, Trump Supporters, William Bell Riley |
By Andrew J. McNeely Andrew McNeely is a Ph.D. student in Theology at the University of Dayton. McNeely’s research interests include 19th and 20th century fundamentalism and evangelicalism at the intersections of theology, education, history, politics, and American...