Aug 19, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, Abolition, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Founder's Rhetoric, Fugitive Slave Act, Inherent Rights, Insurrection, January 6, 2021, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Jr., Reconstruction, Second Ku Klux Klan, Slavery, Systemic Racism, Voting Rights, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Below is an excerpt of an essay of mine that was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, an issue which is devoted to white Christian nationalism and education. A link to the complete article can...
Aug 12, 2025 | Anti-Immigration, Barack Obama, Culture War, Dana White, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, History, January 6, 2021, Kamala Harris, MAGA, Martin Luther King, Jr., Parrhesia, Rodney Kennedy, Sermon on the Mount, South Park, Trump Supporters, Trump Truth, Ukraine, White Evangelicals |
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...
Nov 19, 2024 | Art Jipson, Biblical Prophecy, C. Peter Wagner, Conservative Evangelicals, Deep State, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, January 6, 2021, Lance Wallnau, MAGA, Mike Johnson, New Apostolic Reformation, Pentecostal Charismatics, Samuel A. Alito, Secularism, Spiritual Warfare, The Courage Tour, The Seven Mountains Mandate, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals |
by Art Jipson Art Jipson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Dayton. His research areas include white racial extremism, social movements and collective behavior, white collar crime, fraud, and corporate crime, sociological and criminological...
Jul 18, 2024 | Baptizing America, Brian Kaylor, Christian Nationalism, Culture War, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, January 6, 2021, Jeremy Fuzy, Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, National Conservatism Conference, Revisionism, Ryan Burge, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Word&Way |
by Brian Taylor and Jeremy Fuzy Editor’s Note: Rev. Brian Kaylor is editor of Word&Way, and Dr. Jeremy Fuzy is Word&Way’s digital editor. This post appeared originally in Word&Way’s e-newsletter, A Public Witness, and is reposted here by permission....
May 17, 2023 | A Secular Age, Adolf Hitler, American Democracy, American History, Biblical Literalism, Charles Taylor, Conservative Evangelicals, Dissent, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Gardner Taylor, Global Warming, Goldwater Rule, Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy, History and Politics, Hospitality, How (Not) to be Secular, James K. A. Smith, January 6, 2021, Kenneth Zagacki, LGBTQ+ Rights, Metaphor, Parrhesia, Political Rhetoric, Religion and History, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Secularism, Stanley Hauerwas, The Creative Power of Metaphor, The Immaculate Mistake, Trump Supporters, Vaclev Havel, Walt Whitman, White Evangelicals, Women's Rights |
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...
Nov 15, 2022 | Alex Jones, American Creationism, American Democracy, American Exceptionalism, American History, Andrew Whitehead, Anthea Butler, Anti-Semitism, Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Brian Kaylor, Catholicism, Christian Nationalism, Church and State, Clay Clark, COVID-19, Dominic Sanfilippo, Elders of Zion, Fundamentalism, InfoWars, Iran-Contra Affair, January 6, 2021, Jesus and John Wayne, John Birch Society, Kristin Kobes du Mez, Laudato Si, Martin Buber, Michael Flynn, Mike Lindell, NRA, Oliver North, Peter Wehner, Pope Francis, QAnon, ReAwaken America Tour, Religion and Politics, Rodney Kennedy, Roger Stone, Samuel L. Perry, Southern Baptist Convention, Trump Supporters, White Evangelical Racism, White Supremacy |
by Dominic Sanfilippo Dominic Sanfilippo is researching political and theological polarization, conspiratorial rhetoric, and emerging fundamentalist influences on American Catholicism while pursuing a master’s degree in theological studies at the University of...
