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Life After Fundamentalism: Carl Ruby, Pierre Damas Bel, and Haitians in Springfield

by William Trollinger  Image of Pierre Damas Bel via CNN. On June 25 of this year the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could end Temporary Protected Status for citizens of Haiti, thus allowing the government to deport them despite the reality that...

Evangelical Unrighteousness and the Killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti

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...

Roosevelt the Good Neighbor vs. Trump the Nihilist 

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...

Whither The Progressive Church Vision? How to Be Christian in the Empire

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...

Politics and Religion

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...

The One Time an F is (Better than) Acceptable: Turning Point USA’s Dean’s List

by Tucker James Hoffmann Tucker James Hoffmann is an undergraduate student at the University of Dayton. Under the mentorship of Drs. Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Jr., Tucker has written – among other works – “Gen Z Gen Free: The Rise of Christian Right...