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Whitewashing History: Jerry Bergman’s Review of “Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation,” by Brenda Wineapple

by William Trollinger Burning of 80 ft. cross, KKK, August 9, 1925. Jerry Bergman’s campaign to invent an anti-racist William Jennings Bryan continues apace. This time, it involves a review of Brenda Wineapple’s best-selling book on the Scopes Trial.  It is...

History Matters: MAGA Knows It

by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...

Evolution and Society since Darwin: Teaching History and Drawing Lessons from the Past

by Kristin Johnson Kristin Johnson is a professor in the Science, Technology, Health and Society Program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Her recent books include The Species Maker (an historical novel set in the era of the Scopes Trial),...

Donald Trump’s Sermon on the Mount

by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...

A Hermeneutical Challenge: Toward an Accurate Interpretation of the Genesis Creation Accounts

by Terry Defoe  Terry Defoe was educated at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (BA, Sociology, 1978), Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (M.Div., 1982), and the Open Learning University, Burnaby, British Columbia (BA,...

Dancing with Metaphors in the Pulpit: An Interview with Rodney Kennedy

by William Trollinger Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...