Jun 18, 2024 | 3 Quarks Daily, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Flood Geology, Flood Narrative, Heaven, Hell, Noah, Noah's Ark, Noah's Flood, Paul Braterman, Statement of Faith, The Zone of Interest, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Placard from inside the Ark Encounter. Photo by Susan L. Trollinger. In my last post, I highlighted the ways in which the Noah family featured at the Answers in Genesis (AiG) tourist site, Ark Encounter, bears remarkable similarities to...
Jun 11, 2024 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Auschwitz, Flood Narrative, Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Noah, Noah's Flood, The Zone of Interest, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Still photo from of The Zone of Interest (2023), directed by Jonathan Glazer. Image via bookandfilmglobe.com. The Zone of Interest will be on my mind for a long, long time. This powerfully disturbing film about the Holocaust (perhaps the best I...
May 20, 2024 | Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Artistic License, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Evangelical Rhetoric, Fundamentalism, Noah, Noah's Flood, Religious Rhetorics, University of Dayton, Visual Rhetoric, Young Earth Creationism |
Compiled by Susan Trollinger University of Dayton students visit Ark Encounter. Image by Susan Trollinger, 2024. This spring, I taught a class in which we devoted a unit to studying the arguments and visual/material rhetorics of Protestant fundamentalism. We enjoyed...
Mar 27, 2024 | Allosaurus, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bill Nye, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Donald Trump, Flood Geology, Genesis 1-11, Henry Morris, Heritage USA, Jim Bakker, John C. Whitcomb, Ken Ham, Lighthouse Ranch, Noah's Flood, Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel, Righting America, Scopes Trial, Selling the Amish, Steve Burgess, The Genesis Flood, The Tyee, Young Earth Creationism |
Cover for Steve Burgess’ forthcoming book Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel. Below is an excerpt from Steve Burgess’ forthcoming book, Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel, which will be published by Douglas and McIntyre, and...
Feb 1, 2024 | Abraham, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Claus Westermann, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Creation Science, Flood Narrative, Fundamentalism, Inerrancy, Jennifer Mercieca, Ken Ham, Moses, Noah's Ark, Noah's Flood, P.T. Barnum, Progressive Protestantism, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Robert Cargill, Rowan Williams, Science, The Genesis Flood, Wilhelm Wundt, Young Earth Creationism |
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...
Aug 15, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Antonio Guterres, Ark Encounter, Avery Foley, Biblical Authority, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Carbon Emissions, Christian Right, Cornwall Alliance, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Dispensational Premillennialism, Economics of Climate Change, Environmental Science, Fossil Fuels, Heat Waves, Jessica Jaworski, Lahaina, Maui Fires, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, Proof-Texting, Religion and Science, The Nation, Tom Engelhardt, Wildfires |
by William Trollinger Aftermath of the fires in Lahaina, Hawaii. Image via mauinews.com. In his recent article, “Right-Wing Extremism is Going to Boil Us Alive,” Tom Engelhardt observes that It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking...
