Feb 23, 2023 | Anti-Asian Violence, Asian Americans, Br. Thomas Nguyen, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, COVID-19, George Floyd, Glenmary Home Missionaries, Racism, Religion and Politics, Silence, Systemic Racism, Visibility |
by Br. Thomas Nguyen, G.H.M. An Asian woman holds a sign during an anti-violence rally in New York City. Photo by Jim Wilson of The New York Times. Br. Thomas is a brother of The Glenmary Home Missionaries, a community that ministers to rural populations in the United...
May 31, 2022 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Buffalo, Christian Right, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblind Individualism, Colorblindness, Gender Identity, George Floyd, Insurrection, J. Russell Hawkins, January 6, 2021, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, One Blood, One Race, Politics, Racism, Religion and Politics, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Sin, Slavery, The Age of Fracture, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Cover Image for The Bible Told Them So: How Souther Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins (Oxford University Press, 2021) In his terrific 2021 book, The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to...
Apr 22, 2021 | 700 Club, Black Lives Matter, Conservatism, Criminal Justice Reform, Daunte Wright, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Joe Scarborough, Jon Meacham, Keith Ellison, Matthew Merringer, Pat Robertson, Peter Cahill, Police Brutality, Police Reform, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, White Evangelicals |
by Matthew Merringer Matthew Merringer is a Master Student at the University of Dayton in the Department of Religious Studies. He studies the history and politics of American Protestantism. His interests include radicals such as Dorothy Day, Jerry Falwell, and...
Jun 19, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Black Lives Matter, Confederate Statues, Fox News, George Floyd, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Papa Johns, Racial Justice, Racism, SpongeBob SquarePants, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger SpongeBob SquarePants. Image courtesy of Nickelodeon. This past Saturday Nickolodeon celebrated Pride Month by very strongly suggesting that their popular cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, is gay. LGBTQ+ activists immediately...
Jun 5, 2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Breonna Taylor, Charlottesville, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, George Floyd, Jesus, Ken Ham, Police Brutality, Racism, Sin, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Photo Credit: Allie Caren, Washington Post (2020) In late 2007, we were asked by Mike Castle, then pastor at Cross Creek Church here in Dayton, to give a presentation on Evolution Sunday (which in 2008 was February 10)....
Jun 2, 2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Breonna Taylor, Charlottesville, Complementarian Theology, Creation Museum, Darwin, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, George Floyd, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Racism, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger George Floyd, who died May 25th, 2020 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for at least seven minutes. Photo from Facebook via Wikimedia Commons. So, when does silence equal racism? As everyone knows by now, on the evening of May 25, in...
