Oct 9, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apocalypse, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Biblical Literalism, Brett Kavanaugh, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Donald Trump, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Gender Roles, Global Warming, Inerrancy, Judgment, Museums, Natural and Ordinary Amendment, Religious Rhetorics, Righting America, Voyage Room, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger On the Saturday that Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate as the newest justice on the Supreme Court, it was energizing and therapeutic to be in the company of smart and gracious scholars devoted to studying and explaining religious...
Sep 29, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Calvin College, Christian Colleges, Congregational Library, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Gender Roles, Institutional Religion, Margaret Bendroth, Righting America, Southern Baptist Convention |
by Margaret Bendroth One thing that the #MeToo movement and the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings have made blindingly clear is that sexual harassment/abuse is not simply or even primarily a matter of abusive individuals. Instead, it is very much about institutions – be they...
Jun 13, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Albert Mohler, Battle for the Minds, Emily Hunter McGowin, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Margaret Bendroth, Molly Marshall, Paige Patterson, Southern Baptist Convention |
by Margaret Bendroth Today’s post is by Margaret Bendroth, executive director of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston, and a historian of American religion. Her books include Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale 1993) and Women and...
Jun 12, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Andy Savage, Bill Hybels, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Gender Roles, John Howard Yoder, Jr., Karl Barth, Paige Patterson, Paul Tillich, Southern Baptist Convention |
by Elesha Coffman Today’s post is written by Elesha Coffman, assistant professor of history at Baylor University and author of The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline (Oxford). She is a graduate of Wheaton College and Duke University. First off,...
Jun 11, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Emily Hunter McGowin, Gender Roles, Paige Patterson, Southern Baptist Convention, Todd Littleton |
by Emily McGowin Today’s post is from frequent rightingamerica contributor Emily Hunter McGowin, who is Associate Lecturer of Theology at Wheaton College. She is the author of Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical Theology of the Family. She...
Jun 1, 2018 | Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Culture War, Daniel T. Rodgers, Evangelicals, Feminism, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, LGBT Issues, Nashville Statement, Secularization, The Age of Fracture |
by William Trollinger Why do evangelical leaders and pastors devote so much energy, so much attention, to sex? In particular, evangelical pastors and leaders spend an enormous amount of time delineating what constitutes God-ordained sexuality and God-ordained sexual...
