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The Dominoes Fell, and Next Thing You Know, I Had Exited the Southern Baptist Convention

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...

The Religious Immaturity of Ark Encounter and American Evangelicalism

by William Trollinger Interior of the Ark’s living quarters, as invented by Answers in Genesis at Ark Encounter. Photo by Susan L. Trollinger. In his wonderful book, The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage, Richard Rohr talks about how we...

Ken Ham: The Majority of Evangelical Colleges are Unsafe for Christian Students

by William Trollinger Screenshot of Ken Ham’;s “This is Truly Awful: Seriously?! This is What ‘Christian’ Schools are Teaching” video, via Answers in Genesis. Ken Ham has launched a full-scale, no holds barred attack on evangelical...

Questions Creationists Ask: A Journey from Science Denial to an Evolutionary Perspective

by Terry Defoe Terry Defoe was educated at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (BA, Sociology, 1978), Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (M.Div., 1982), and the Open Learning University, Burnaby, British Columbia (BA, Psychology,...

1 in 4 Americans Reject Evolution, A Century After the Scopes Monkey Trial Spotlighted the Clash between Science and Religion

by William Trollinger and Susan Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to the editors to republish it here. The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law...

With the Texas Voucher Bill, taxpayer money will go to private schools that teach anti-science and Young-Earth Creationism

by Mara Richards Bim Mara Richards Bim serves as a Clemons Fellow with Baptist News Global (BNG) and as program director at Faith Commons. She is a spiritual director and a recent master of divinity degree graduate from Perkins School of Theology at SMU. She also...