May 29, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Daniel Cox, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalism, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, intolerance, LGBT Issues, Secularization, Wheaton College, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger The numbers tell a remarkable story. White evangelicalism is shrinking, and at a brisk rate. While 23% of Americans identified as white and evangelical in 2006, that number had dropped to 17% by 2017. More than this, white evangelicalism is...
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...
Jan 10, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Westboro Baptist Church |
by William Trollinger As Ken Ham reported in a recent post, members of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) recently came to Cincinnati to protest a local high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance Club. A local newspaper responded by publishing an article – “endorsed by a number...
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...
Sep 1, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Racism, Randall Balmer, Righting America, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger In a blistering August 23 LA Times op-ed historian Randall Balmer makes the case that contemporary American evangelicalism is an ethical disaster. One example is the fact that in the 2016 election 81% of white evangelicals voted for a man who...
