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The One Time an F is (Better than) Acceptable: Turning Point USA’s Dean’s List

by Tucker James Hoffmann Tucker James Hoffmann is an undergraduate student at the University of Dayton. Under the mentorship of Drs. Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Jr., Tucker has written – among other works – “Gen Z Gen Free: The Rise of Christian Right...

Yikes! Creationist “Scholar” Attacks RightingAmerica

by William Trollinger Image of Ken Ham & A. Charles Ware’s 2007 book Darwin’s Plantation. Dear Jerry (if I may): Oh my. It appears that my discussion of your article on Darwin and the Vietnam War has struck a nerve. So it is that you have mustered your...

Answers in Genesis finances, more lame responses from Taylor University administrators

by William Trollinger Screenshot of the 990 Form from 2020 for Answers in Genesis, via ProPublica Below are two links you may very well find interesting, if you are interested in how Answers in Genesis (AiG) conducts itself financially, and how Taylor University...

An Asian-American Missioner in the Appalachians

by Br. Thomas Nguyen, G.H.M. Roan Mountain, Tennessee. Image by Daniel Martin via Wikimedia Commons Br. Thomas is a brother of The Glenmary Home Missionaries, a community that ministers to rural populations in the United States. He is a second-year Pastoral Ministry...

Fragile White Evangelicals: Taylor University and the Firing of Julie Moore

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...

Charles Darwin was Responsible for the Vietnam War?

by William Trollinger Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road. Image via Wikimedia...