Jan 25, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Guaranteed Pure, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, Tim Gloege, 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...
Dec 20, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, Racism |
by William Trollinger In his very charitable review of Righting America on the BioLogos website Ted Davis notes that he “partly dissent[s]” from our treatment of racism: They acknowledge that Ham and his Museum unambiguously oppose racism and blame evolution for...
Sep 25, 2017 | Anti-Semitism, Biblical Interpretation, Christian Right, Church, Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelicals, Israel, Racism |
by Emily McGowin Emily Hunter McGowin has a PhD in theology from the University of Dayton and MDiv from Truett Seminary. Her work is at the intersection of religion, theology, and ethnography. Her first book, Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical...
Sep 14, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, KKK, Racism |
by William Trollinger America, 2017. We have a vociferous and angry Christian Right, an ongoing and increasingly heated cultural argument over who is truly American and who is not, and a government campaign to close the borders and deport the unwanted. We have a...
Sep 1, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Racism, Randall Balmer, Righting America, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger In a blistering August 23 LA Times op-ed historian Randall Balmer makes the case that contemporary American evangelicalism is an ethical disaster. One example is the fact that in the 2016 election 81% of white evangelicals voted for a man who...
Dec 15, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Bodie Hodge, Creationism, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Racial Justice, Racism, Slavery, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger As we noted in our last post, Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis (AiG) expend a good deal of energy – in the Creation Museum and in their writings – making the case that racist hatred and intolerance is unbiblical. This would seem commendable,...
