Jul 30, 2018 | Apologetics, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Historical Science, Messiah College, Religious Absolutism, William James |
William Trollinger At the heart of much of evangelical apologetics is the promise that you can know that you know the truth. Not think or hope or have faith that you know the truth, but know that you know the truth. In particular, you can know with certainty – it has...
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 2, 2018 | Dennis Hof, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Heteronormativity, Tim Reid |
by William Trollinger When I first read the story, I was stunned. Upon reflection, not so much. The title of Tim Reid’s article says it all: “In age of Trump, evangelicals back self-styled top U.S. pimp.” The pimp is Dennis Hof, who runs a strip club and...
Jun 28, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Areligious, Culture War, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Secularization |
Rebecca Barrett-Fox is Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she researches and writes about religion, hate, and sexuality...
Jun 18, 2018 | Asylum Seekers, Christian Right, Culture War, Dana Milbanks, Evangelicals, Immigration, intolerance, Jeff Sessions, Meghan Henning, Racism, Stephen Colbert, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who...
Jun 7, 2018 | Ark Encounter, Evangelicals, KKK, Linda Gordon |
by William Trollinger In the final chapter of her wonderful new book, The Second Coming of the KKK, Linda Gordon provides a very helpful discussion of the ways in which the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s fit and did not fit the label “fascist.” In this regard, she noted...
