Oct 23, 2018 | Certainty, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Hillary Clinton, Identification, intolerance, Kenneth Burke, Politics, Rhetoric |
by Camille Kaminski Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies....
Oct 17, 2018 | Certainty, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Evolution, Francis Collins, intolerance, Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, Richard Lischner, Richard Weaver |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Jun 18, 2018 | Asylum Seekers, Christian Right, Culture War, Dana Milbanks, Evangelicals, Immigration, intolerance, Jeff Sessions, Meghan Henning, Racism, Stephen Colbert, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who...
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...
