Dec 7, 2020 | Cedarville University, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Immigration, Madison Cawthorn, Politics, Sarah Jones, Sexual Violence, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Evangelical leaders pray over Trump in the Oval Office. Photo via The Chicago Tribune (2017). “What does it profit a faith to gain a whole country and then lose it, along with its own soul?” (Sarah Jones) Four years ago, just after the...
Nov 25, 2020 | 1619 Project, American Exceptionalism, American History, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Fox News, History, Mayflower, Native Americans, Pilgrims, Politics, Slavery, Squanto, Thanksgiving, Tom Cotton, William Bradford |
by William Trollinger Senator Tom Cotton. Image courtesy of Newsweek. The masters of Twitter and the Blogosphere are once again dismantling Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas and Donald Trump wannabe. Cotton might have two Harvard degrees, but he is certainly proving...
Nov 20, 2020 | Abraham Lincoln, Conservative Evangelicals, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Lincoln Memorial, Politics, Rachael Griggs, Slavery, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by Rachael Griggs Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, engraved at the Lincoln Memorial. Photo: the U.S. National Parks Service Rachael Griggs is a science advocate and a Jesus advocate. Her awe of nature and appreciation for the sciences began with her first...
Oct 28, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Literalism, Bill Nye, Cedarville University, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Science, Culture War, Donald Trump, Donovan Schaefer, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Evangelicals, Historical Science, Inerrancy, Josh Gunn, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Observational Science, Politics, Populism, Religion and Science, Science, Scopes Trial, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, William Jennings Bryan, 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. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Sep 25, 2020 | American History, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, God in a Nutshell, History, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Politics, QAnon, Racism, Slavery, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trey Smith, Vaccination, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Trey Smith’s The Coming Storm: A Donald J. Trump Documentary. Image via Youtube “Many, many soldiers . . . died for the freedom of many people of other shades and colors, some of whom were sold out by their own kinsmen and...
Sep 1, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, BioLogos, Calvin University, Camille Lewis, Christianity Today, COVID-19, Creation Science, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, Grace Community Church, John MacArthur, Ken Ham, Messiah College, Observational Science, Politics, QAnon, Religion and Science, Righting America, Science, Westmont College, Wheaton College |
by William Trollinger In the Age of Trump it is very easy to imagine that white evangelicalism is a monolith. But when it comes to science, in general, and the pandemic, in particular, it turns out that it is not. In 2007 Francis Collins – who then was director of the...
