Jan 10, 2019 | Christian Right, Christine Emba, Culture War, Daily Kos, Donald Trump, Elections, Eliza Griswold, Emma Green, Evan Siegfried, Evangelicals, Greg Sargent, Jerry Falwell Jr., Joe Heim, K.M. Wehrstein, Michael Gerson, NBC News, Politics, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Washington Post |
by William Trollinger It is absolutely impossible to keep up on all the articles being written by smart journalists and scholars on white evangelicals, the Christian Right, and Donald Trump. Below are seven articles that have appeared since New Year’s Day. They range...
Dec 7, 2018 | Christian Colleges, College of the Ozarks, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Politics |
by William Trollinger My first college teaching position was at the College of the Ozarks (C of O). When I say this to people who know something about the school – who have heard that it has been rated the most anti-LGBTQ college in the nation and/or that the...
Nov 29, 2018 | American Historian, Christian Right, Christianity Today, Elesha Coffman, John Fea, Laura Jane Gifford, Lerone Martin, Politics, R. Marie Griffith, Rodney Kennedy, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger We have said it again and again, but the emergence of the Christian Right as the GOP’s most reliable constituency AND then – most dramatically – the election of Donald Trump as president has resulted in all sorts of very smart people looking...
Nov 9, 2018 | Corinth Kid's Club, Culture War, Herbie Miller, Immigration, intolerance, Politics |
Herbie Miller is the pastor of Corinth Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Dayton, OH. He has a PhD in theology from the University of Dayton’s Department of Religious Studies. His academic work centers on historical theology and American Christianity. He has published in...
Oct 26, 2018 | Birth of a Nation, Civil War, D.W. Griffith, Emanuel AME Church, History, intolerance, KKK, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Redemption, Robert E. Lee, Slavery, Statement on Confederate Monuments, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger “Redemption.” In Christian theology, it is a powerful and hopeful term referring to the deliverance from sin and its consequences. But in the context of U.S. history, “Redemption” is a word that has much less positive connotations. Thursday night...
Oct 23, 2018 | Certainty, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Hillary Clinton, Identification, intolerance, Kenneth Burke, Politics, Rhetoric |
by Camille Kaminski Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies....
