May 31, 2022 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Buffalo, Christian Right, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblind Individualism, Colorblindness, Gender Identity, George Floyd, Insurrection, J. Russell Hawkins, January 6, 2021, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, One Blood, One Race, Politics, Racism, Religion and Politics, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Sin, Slavery, The Age of Fracture, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Cover Image for The Bible Told Them So: How Souther Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins (Oxford University Press, 2021) In his terrific 2021 book, The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to...
May 24, 2022 | #BlackLivesMatter, Acts 29, Ark Encounter, Cedarville University, COVID-19, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Evangelical Industrial Complex, Gender Roles, Grace Community Church, Harvest Bible Chapel, Inerrancy, James McDonald, Jerry Falwell Jr., John MacArthur, John Street, Julie Roys, Ken Ham, Liberty University, Mark Driscoll, Matt Chandler, Patriarchy, QAnon, Ravi Zacharias, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence, Southern Baptist Convention, Thomas White, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger A screenshot of Ken Ham’s post to Facebook on John McArthur’s “Truth Matters!” Conference. Image via Facebook. It’s hard to imagine that anyone outside the Christian Right bubble is unaware of the fact that white...
Apr 18, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Creation Museum, Dan Phelps, Ken Ham, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger An image of Ark Encounter surrounded by fog. Image via arkencounter.com. Sometimes Ken Ham’s fog machine is a bit too much. Too much obfuscation. A few days ago Ham put out an article in which he proclaimed that “the internationally popular...
Apr 14, 2022 | Americans United, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Dan Phelps, Hemant Mehta, Ken Ham, Rob Boston, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown |
by Rob Boston, Senior Adviser for Americans United and Editor, Church & State Exterior of Ark Encounter. Image by Susan L. Trollinger (March 15, 2022). Editor’s Note: Today we share an article that appeared earlier this week at Americans United for...
Apr 7, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Dan Phelps, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Exterior of Ark Encounter. Image by Susan L. Trollinger (March 15, 2022). A few weeks ago – during our spring break at the University of Dayton – we visited Ark Encounter. It was our ninth or tenth visit since the Ark opened in July, 2016. In...
Mar 30, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Creation Science, Environmental Science, Evolution, Historical Science, Judith Butler, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Precarity, Religion and Science, Religion and the Environment, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Stephen Toulmin, Thomas Kuhn, 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. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
