Feb 25, 2025 | Abortion, Capitalism, Culture War, Cursing, Franklin Graham, God's Wrath, Hell, Hurricane Katrina, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Judgment, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, Living Waters, Los Angeles Fires, Man-made Climate Change, Pat Robertson, Racial Justice, Ray Comfort, September 11th, Wokeness |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ray Comfort’s Living Waters Ministry video, “Hollywood Mocks God, Then This Happens”. Image via YouTube. It is striking – but not surprising – how often fundamentalist leaders and preachers proclaim that this or...
Sep 17, 2024 | Capital Punishment, College of the Ozarks, Death Penalty, Racial Justice, Robert Jordan, Samuel McDonald, Social Justice, Supreme Court, University of Dayton |
by William Trollinger Flyer for panel discussion, “Is This Justice?: Stories of Death Row” (Tuesday, September 27, 2024), moderated by William Trollinger. Next Tuesday evening the University of Dayton Campus Ministry, the Catholic Mobilizing Network,...
May 4, 2023 | Bob Jones University, Cedarville University, Evangelical Education, Jemar Tisby, Jewerl Maxwell, Julie L. Moore, Michael Lindsay, Mike Pence, Racial Justice, Racism, Safe Schools, Sexual Abuse, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Taylor University, The Color of Compromise, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Entry to Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. Image via Star 106.9. As one who taught for eight years at a “moderate” evangelical university, I speak from personal experience when I say that the gap between so-called moderate evangelical schools...
Jun 15, 2022 | American History, Biblical Interpretation, Billy Graham, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblindness, George Wallace, History, J. Russell Hawkins, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jim Crow, Race and Religion, Racial Justice, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Southern White Evangelicals, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger J. Russell (“Rusty”) Hawkins is Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is also author of The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy, which...
Apr 22, 2021 | 700 Club, Black Lives Matter, Conservatism, Criminal Justice Reform, Daunte Wright, Derek Chauvin, George Floyd, Joe Scarborough, Jon Meacham, Keith Ellison, Matthew Merringer, Pat Robertson, Peter Cahill, Police Brutality, Police Reform, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, White Evangelicals |
by Matthew Merringer Matthew Merringer is a Master Student at the University of Dayton in the Department of Religious Studies. He studies the history and politics of American Protestantism. His interests include radicals such as Dorothy Day, Jerry Falwell, and...
Jun 19, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Black Lives Matter, Confederate Statues, Fox News, George Floyd, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Papa Johns, Racial Justice, Racism, SpongeBob SquarePants, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger SpongeBob SquarePants. Image courtesy of Nickelodeon. This past Saturday Nickolodeon celebrated Pride Month by very strongly suggesting that their popular cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, is gay. LGBTQ+ activists immediately...
