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...
Apr 6, 2018 | Christian Colleges, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Excalibur, intolerance, Taylor University |
by William Trollinger In looking at Excalibur – the self-advertised “publication of the Taylor University conservative underground” — here is what we see: The authors of Excalibur claim that – because of “our current cultural climate” as well as “leftist trends”...
Apr 2, 2018 | Christian Colleges, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Excalibur, intolerance, Taylor University |
by William Trollinger The headline in Christianity Today says it all: “Taylor University Still Shaken by Unsanctioned Conservative Newspaper.” Founded in 1847, Taylor is now an independent Christian college of approximately 1900 undergraduate students located in...
Feb 27, 2018 | History, intolerance, KKK, Ohio |
Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things . . . And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable? E. B. DuBois,...
Oct 24, 2017 | Christian Right, Donald Trump, Fundamentalism, intolerance, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Righting America, Westboro Baptist Church |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox with William Trollinger In Righting America we note that “in the twenty-first century, the study of American fundamentalism has really come into its own, with a surfeit of outstanding works, many of which pay close attention to economics and...
