Nov 18, 2025 | Adam Laats, Age of the Earth, Andrew Carnegie, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Creation Museum, David Barton, David Blight, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Donald Trump, Emotion, Evangelical History, Frederick Douglass, Herbert McCabe, Higher Education, History, History and Politics, Jill Lepore, Jim Crow, John Rockefeller, Lauren Berlant, Lynn Hunt, MAGA, MAGA Evangelicals, Memory, Paula White, Pepe the Frog, PragerU, Pseudoarcheology, Reconstruction, Robert Jeffress, Robert Penn Warren, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregation, Thurgood Marshall, White Supremacy |
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...
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...
Nov 4, 2024 | American Democracy, Barack Obama, Brian L Ott, David Blight, Dissent, Donald Trump, Flannery O'Connor, Greg Dickinson, Hush Harbors, James C. Scott, Jim Crow, Jonathan Haidt, Maggie Haberman, Patrick Healy, Racism, Robert L. Ivie, Social Media, Vorris L. Nunley, White Evangelical Racism, White Men, White Privilege, White Supremacy, Zora Neale Hurston |
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...
Oct 3, 2023 | American History, Biblical Literalism, Charles Payne, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, George Wallace, Historical Fallacy, James Meredith, Jim Crow, John Lewis, June Johnson, Leon Hannaford, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Percy Julian, Racism, Redistricting, Robert Rowland, Rodney Kennedy, Ron DeSantis, Segregation, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Slavery, Supreme Court, Systemic Racism, Trey Lamar, Voting Rights Act, White Supremacy |
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...
Jun 15, 2022 | American History, Biblical Interpretation, Billy Graham, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblindness, George Wallace, History, J. Russell Hawkins, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jim Crow, Race and Religion, Racial Justice, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Southern White Evangelicals, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger J. Russell (“Rusty”) Hawkins is Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is also author of The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy, which...
May 12, 2021 | Civil Rights Movement Archive, Donald Trump, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jim Crow, Literacy Tests, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Rodney Clapp, Rodney Hessinger, Southern Voters, Trump Supporters, Voting Rights Act, Will Campbell |
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)...
