May 17, 2018 | Ark Encounter, Creation Science, Culture War, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, Mary McLoughlin, Paternalism, University of Dayton |
by Mary McLoughlin Today’s post is from Mary McLoughlin, a sophomore at the University of Dayton studying English and Human Rights. She is particularly interested in the ethics of storytelling and how language and literature is used to mobilize the voices of...
May 8, 2018 | Adam Laats, Carl Ruby, Cedarville University, Central Christian Church, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalism, Red Letter Christians, Righting America, The New York Times, Welcome Springfield |
by William Trollinger Evangelical colleges are always having to prove – to parents, donors, and evangelical leaders such as James Dobson or Ken Ham – that they are, to quote Adam Laats, “guardians and teachers of a necessarily vague dream of eternal and unchanging...
Mar 9, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Biblical Literalism, Bryan Osborne, Creation Science, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Righting America, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger In the end, is the point to make it possible for evangelicals not to think? Bryan Osborne of Answers in Genesis (AiG) has recently explained the organization’s purpose thusly: The revelation that the Bible’s plain history is true, that...
Dec 9, 2017 | Bible, Creation Museum, Culture War, Fundamentalism, Jesus |
by William Trollinger We got a glimpse of Jesus in our recent visit to the Creation Museum. Or we think it was him. Hard to know for sure. The guy we saw seemed really angry. In our last post we noted that, in our research for Righting America at the Creation Museum,...
Nov 7, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Anticommunism, Carl R. Weinberg, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evolution, Fundamentalism, History, Politics |
by Carl Weinberg Today’s post comes from Dr. Carl R. Weinberg. Weinberg is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion:...
Oct 27, 2017 | Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelicals, Feminism, Fundamentalism, History, Jesus |
by Emily McGowin Today’s post comes from our colleague Emily Hunter McGowin. Dr. McGowin has a PhD in theology from the University of Dayton and MDiv from Truett Seminary. Her work is at the intersection of religion, theology, and ethnography. Her first...
