Aug 22, 2017 | American Athiests, Evangelicals, intolerance, LGBT Issues |
by William Trollinger When Pam Whissel asked us to give a talk at the 2017 American Atheists convention on Righting America at the Creation Museum, our response was that if the American Atheists did not mind a couple of Catholics crashing their party, then we would be...
Aug 10, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Apocalypse, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, intolerance, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Righting America |
by William Trollinger To say that Ken Ham devotes a great deal of energy and time to vilifying gay marriage and LGBTQ rights is an understatement. As we noted recently, over the past year Ham – who apparently has no comment on, say, immigrants, refugees, or white...
Jul 31, 2017 | AiG Finances, Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Evangelicals, Jesus, Ken Ham, Righting America, TIF Bonds, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger It turns out that folks are watching. In our last post we noted that – despite Answers in Genesis (AiG) CEO Ken Ham’s public statement in which he fudged some facts and omitted many more – it seems as the most obvious explanation for Ark...
Jul 24, 2017 | Bible, Church, Evangelicals, Jesus, Zach Spidel |
by Zach Spidel Today’s post is a continuation of our colleague Zach Spidel’s reflections on the Willow Creek Community’s Global Leadership Summit. Below, Zach describes the ways he sees the leadership lessons to be at odds with Christian ministry. ...
Jul 20, 2017 | Bible, Church, Evangelicals, Jesus, Zach Spidel |
by Zach Spidel Zach Spidel is a minister with the Brethren in Christ Church and is currently serving as the pastor of two congregations in Dayton, Ohio, including The Shepherd’s Table – a church he led in planting on the city’s struggling east end. A...
Jun 29, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bible, Creationism, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Inerrancy, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger In 1994 historian Mark Noll published The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, which he famously begins with the devastating assertion that “the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind” (3). While Noll gives...
