Dec 19, 2018 | Birth of a Nation, Dayton, History, KKK, Ohio, Racism, University of Dayton, White Supremacy |
KKK Demonstration in Dayton, OH on September 21, 1923. Photo courtesy of Dayton Metro Library. 95 years ago today my home institution – the University of Dayton (UD) – was bombed. And while some specifics have changed, the general reasons why UD was bombed remain with...
Oct 26, 2018 | Birth of a Nation, Civil War, D.W. Griffith, Emanuel AME Church, History, intolerance, KKK, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Redemption, Robert E. Lee, Slavery, Statement on Confederate Monuments, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger “Redemption.” In Christian theology, it is a powerful and hopeful term referring to the deliverance from sin and its consequences. But in the context of U.S. history, “Redemption” is a word that has much less positive connotations. Thursday night...
Jul 27, 2018 | Donald Trump, Politics, Racism, Seth Dowland, Stephanie McCrummen, White Evangelicals |
William Trollinger Thanks to the fact that an overwhelming percentage of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump and continue to enthusiastically support him – hush money to porn actresses and obeisance to Vladimir Putin notwithstanding – many smart journalists and...
Jun 18, 2018 | Asylum Seekers, Christian Right, Culture War, Dana Milbanks, Evangelicals, Immigration, intolerance, Jeff Sessions, Meghan Henning, Racism, Stephen Colbert, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who...
Feb 5, 2018 | KKK, Persecution, Racial Justice, Racism, Slavery |
by William Trollinger “Was it the Ku Klux Klan who lynched a black man here in the 1870s?” This was the final question I (Bill) was asked Saturday afternoon at the Sandusky (OH) Library, after my presentation on “Terrorizing Immigrants and Catholics: The Ohio KKK in...
Jan 29, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, White Evangelicals |
by Adam Laats with William Trollinger Adam Laats’ eagerly anticipated book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, comes out next week from Oxford University Press. We have posed a few questions for Adam about his book, and in this post and...
