Nov 2, 2020 | Amy Coney Barrett, Answers in Genesis, Barack Obama, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Elections, Fundamentalism, Qasim Rashid, Trump Supporters |
by Susan Trollinger Just about a week ago, Qasim Rashid (a Democrat running for Congress in Virginia’s first district) was speaking at an outdoor campaign event to about 30 supporters in the beautiful setting of Aquia Harbor in Stafford, Virginia. As you would expect,...
Sep 8, 2020 | AAUP, Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Harold Heie, Inerrancy, John Fea, Liberty University, Messiah College, Secularism, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Harold Heie. Photo via Respectful Conversations It is absolutely true that, as John Fea likes to point out, not all evangelical colleges are the same. Not all evangelical schools have signed on to Ken Ham’s uninspiring list of Creation Colleges....
Aug 28, 2020 | Bob Jones, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Ernest Sandeen, Fundamentalism, George Marsden, God's Empire, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jerry Falwell, Sr., John Fea, John R. Rice, Liberty University, New Social History, Northwestern Bible School, Racism, Scopes Trial, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, William Bell Riley, World's Christian Fundamentals Association |
by William Trollinger William Bell Riley. Photo courtesy of Minneapolis Star-Tribune. I will get to Jerry Falwell, Jr. in a moment. But first, a look at the first great fundamentalist emperor. I fell in love with the “new social history” at the University of...
Aug 18, 2020 | Christian Right, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalism, Willow Creek Community Church |
by Susan Trollinger An expansive view of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill. Photo courtesy of Willow Creek Community Church In the summer of 1979, just before I began attending Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois, I was convinced by my best...
Aug 14, 2020 | Anthony Moore, Aristotle, Biblically Consistent Curriculum, Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Heteronormativity, Jerry Falwell Jr., Kenneth Burke, Liberty University, Rodney Kennedy, Secularism, Thomas White |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton...
Aug 11, 2020 | Anthony Moore, Biblically Consistent Curriculum, Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Christian Right, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University, Patriarchy, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence, Thomas White, Title IX, William Bell Riley |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger One of the primary reasons that some 46,000 undergraduates attend Liberty University is that the institution obliges all of its students to adhere to a set of rules called “The Liberty Way.” That means that in addition to...
