Jun 7, 2018 | Ark Encounter, Evangelicals, KKK, Linda Gordon |
by William Trollinger In the final chapter of her wonderful new book, The Second Coming of the KKK, Linda Gordon provides a very helpful discussion of the ways in which the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s fit and did not fit the label “fascist.” In this regard, she noted...
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,...
Feb 5, 2018 | KKK, Persecution, Racial Justice, Racism, Slavery |
by William Trollinger “Was it the Ku Klux Klan who lynched a black man here in the 1870s?” This was the final question I (Bill) was asked Saturday afternoon at the Sandusky (OH) Library, after my presentation on “Terrorizing Immigrants and Catholics: The Ohio KKK in...
Feb 1, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Right, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, KKK |
by William Trollinger In our recent Q/A with Adam Laats about his newly-released book, Fundamentalist U, he pointed out that In order to survive, [evangelical] schools have had to maintain reputations as both guardians and teachers of a necessarily vague dream of...
Nov 4, 2017 | Catholocism, History, KKK, Ohio, Politics |
by William Trollinger “Is your sleep troubled by the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and related hate groups?” This was one of the questions I (Bill) was asked last Thursday night at the St. Joseph Parish Life Center (Wapakoneta OH), after my presentation on...
Sep 14, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, KKK, Racism |
by William Trollinger America, 2017. We have a vociferous and angry Christian Right, an ongoing and increasingly heated cultural argument over who is truly American and who is not, and a government campaign to close the borders and deport the unwanted. We have a...
