Jun 28, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Areligious, Culture War, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Secularization |
Rebecca Barrett-Fox is Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she researches and writes about religion, hate, and sexuality...
May 29, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Daniel Cox, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalism, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, intolerance, LGBT Issues, Secularization, Wheaton College, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger The numbers tell a remarkable story. White evangelicalism is shrinking, and at a brisk rate. While 23% of Americans identified as white and evangelical in 2006, that number had dropped to 17% by 2017. More than this, white evangelicalism is...
May 25, 2018 | Donald Trump, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, intolerance, LGBT Issues, Nashville Statement |
by William Trollinger One thing you have to say about high school and college-age youth. They are on high alert for any hint of hypocrisy. In August 2017 the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood – an organization which proclaims that God’s plan for marriage...
May 22, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Gay Marriage, Heteronormativity, intolerance, LGBT Issues |
by William Trollinger As Mary McLoughlin discovered in her close examination of Ark Encounter, the folks at Answers in Genesis (AiG) go to great lengths to make the case that the paternalistic heterosexual family is God’s norm for human beings. And they go to great...
Feb 1, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Right, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, KKK |
by William Trollinger In our recent Q/A with Adam Laats about his newly-released book, Fundamentalist U, he pointed out that In order to survive, [evangelical] schools have had to maintain reputations as both guardians and teachers of a necessarily vague dream of...
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...
