Mar 17, 2026 | Alabama, Clemency, Death Penalty, Derrick DeBruce, Doug Battle, Eddie Mae Ellison, Holman Correctional Facility, Kay Ivey, Kilby Correctional Facility, Lee Hedgepeth, LuJuan McCants, Matt Schulz, Nancy Palombi, Nitrogen Gas, Poverty, Racism, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonny Burton, The Alabama Solution, Tori Battle |
By Liliana Segura Last week we published an article on the planned execution of Sonny Burton, an horrifying commonplace in Alabama and America. But then, Burton’s death sentence was commuted, as wonderfully celebrated in this article by Liliana Segura in The...
Mar 9, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Derrick DeBruce, Doug Battle, Equal Justice Initiative, Kay Ivey, Racism, Rodney Kennedy, Sonny Burton, Tori Battle |
by William Trollinger Charles “Sonny” Burton. Image via Telemundo Dallas. Maybe, just maybe, by the time you read this, Alabama’s governor Kay Ivey will have done the right thing. Maybe. Let’s start with one basic and very important fact: ...
Mar 3, 2026 | Andrew Goodman, Apocalypticism, Book of Common Prayer, Brown vs, the Board of Education, Confederate Statues, Dispensational Premillennialism, Dissent, Duncan Gray, Evans Harrington, James Chaney, James McClendron, James Meredith, Joe Btfsk, Michael Schwerner, Murray Faulkner, Racism, Second Ku Klux Klan, Systematic Theology, Will Campbell |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...
Feb 24, 2026 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, Jeffery Epstein, Joe Biden, Kali Holloway, Ken Ham, Pedophilia, QAnon, Racism, Sexual Abuse, Steve Bannon, The Coming Storm, Trey Smith, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Answers in Genesis’ representation of a “secular” worldview. Ken Ham’s silence is deafening. And so revealing. For those who don’t know, QAnon (quoting from Britannica) is a conspiracy theory originating in forum posts on...
Dec 16, 2025 | Anti-Immigration, Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., Democracy, Dissent, Donald Trump, Empathy, George Lakoff, George Pickett, George W. Bush, Herod, Ilhan Omar, Islamophobia, James David Duncan, Kenneth Burke, MAGA, MAGA Evangelicals, Racism, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric of War, Robert E. Lee, Robert Ivie, Rodney Kennedy, Stacey Abrams, Stanley Hauerwas, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, Venezuela, White Evangelical Racism, White Supremacy |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which he...
Oct 28, 2025 | Ableism, Biology, Charles Darwin, Creationism, Descriptive Analysis, Diversity and Inclusion in STEM, Eugenics, Evelleen Richards, Evolution, Gender Roles, History, History of Science, Intelligent Design, John Stuart Mill, Kristin Johnson, Normative Analysis, Political Polarization, Pseudoscience, Racism, Religion and Science, Science Education, Scopes Trial, Sex Differences, Sexism, Social Justice, The Descent of Man |
by Kristin Johnson Kristin Johnson is a professor in the Science, Technology, Health and Society Program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Her recent books include The Species Maker (an historical novel set in the era of the Scopes Trial),...
