Sep 18, 2017 | Bodie Hodge, Christian Colleges, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, History, Moody Bible Institute, Righting America, Tim Gloege |
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...
Sep 7, 2017 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Evolution, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Ken Ham, Righting America, Science |
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...
Sep 5, 2017 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Righting America |
by Adam Laats 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.” And the hits just keep coming. Over the...
Sep 1, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Racism, Randall Balmer, Righting America, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger In a blistering August 23 LA Times op-ed historian Randall Balmer makes the case that contemporary American evangelicalism is an ethical disaster. One example is the fact that in the 2016 election 81% of white evangelicals voted for a man who...
Aug 29, 2017 | American Athiests, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Politics |
by William Trollinger The Christian Right works overtime to sell the story that America is in the midst of a life-or-death culture war, with Christians on one side and atheists and humanists and secularists on the other. According to this Christian Right binary, the...
Aug 25, 2017 | American Athiests, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Righting America |
by William Trollinger Saturday at the American Atheists Convention in North Charleston involved twelve back-to-back presentations in the (ice-cold) Marriott ballroom. Besides those mentioned in our last post, there were also presentations on: “The Threat of a...
