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Ken Ham Proves the Point: For Evangelicals, Every Child is a Gift, Except When They Aren’t

Jul 15, 2019 | Abortion, Adoption, Asylum Seekers, Children, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Euthanasia, Evangelicals, Gender Roles, intolerance, John Pavlovitz, Ken Ham, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, Refugees, Sex Trafficking, White Evangelicals | 0 comments

by William Trollinger 2-year-old Yanela Sanchez and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, taken into custody June 12, 2018. Photo credit: John Moore (via Getty Images) In the previous post, “Every Child is a Gift . . . Except When They Aren’t,”  Emily...

Every Child is a Gift…Except When They Aren’t

Jul 9, 2019 | Asylum Seekers, Children, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Feminism, intolerance, Quiverfull, Racial Justice, Racism, Refugees, Southern Baptist Convention, Wheaton, White Evangelicals | 0 comments

by Emily Hunter McGowin Today’s post is from Emily Hunter McGowin, who  is Associate Lecturer of Theology at Wheaton College. She is the author of Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical Theology of the Family. She holds a PhD in...

Cheap Grace: White Evangelicals and the Matter of Race

Apr 25, 2019 | Christian Colleges, Excalibur, Molly Worthen, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, Taylor University, The New York Times, Tim Dillon, Westmont College, White Evangelicals, White Jesus, White Supremacy | 0 comments

by William Trollinger There’s no getting around it. White evangelicalism has a race problem. And some white evangelicals are getting the message. So it is that some Westmont College students are agitating for the removal of the “white Jesus” in the campus...