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...
Oct 24, 2017 | Christian Right, Donald Trump, Fundamentalism, intolerance, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Righting America, Westboro Baptist Church |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox with William Trollinger In Righting America 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 close attention to economics and...
Oct 19, 2017 | Christian Right, Fundamentalism, Hell, intolerance, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Righting America, Westboro Baptist Church |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox with William Trollinger In Righting America 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 close attention to economics and...