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 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...
Aug 29, 2017 | American Athiests, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Politics |
by William Trollinger The Christian Right works overtime to sell the story that America is in the midst of a life-or-death culture war, with Christians on one side and atheists and humanists and secularists on the other. According to this Christian Right binary, the...
Aug 14, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, intolerance, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Persecution, Politics, Rebecca Barrett-Fox |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox Today’s post is written by Rebecca Barrett-Fox, professor of sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she...
Aug 10, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Apocalypse, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, intolerance, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Righting America |
by William Trollinger To say that Ken Ham devotes a great deal of energy and time to vilifying gay marriage and LGBTQ rights is an understatement. As we noted recently, over the past year Ham – who apparently has no comment on, say, immigrants, refugees, or white...
Jun 16, 2017 | Biblical Interpretation, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Maria Stein, Pete Cajka, Politics, Righting America |
by Peter Cajka In his conclusion to this week’s series, Dr. Pete Cajka compares the political implications of each site’s displays, focusing on the ways both sites critique secularization of local, national, and transnational cultures. V: Politics:...
