Jan 11, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, 1861, American Exceptionalism, American History, Black Lives Matter, Capitol Riot, College of the Ozarks, Confederacy, Conservative Evangelicals, Daniel Immerwahr, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Insurrection, Jerry Davis, Joe Biden, Nicholas Kristof, Politics, Racism, Raymond Screws, Ronald Reagan, Slavery, The New York Times, Washington Post, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by Raymond D. Screws Raymond D. Screws earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 2003. He also has an MA from Pittsburg State University and a B.A. from School (now College) of the Ozarks, where his advisor was William Trollinger. Throughout his...
Dec 15, 2020 | Ahmed Khanani, All Politics are God's Politics, American Democracy, Arab Muslim Middle East, Conservative Evangelicals, dimuqratiyya, Donald Trump, Elections, Electoral College, Immigration, Islam, Islamophobia, Moroccan Islamists, Politics, Racism, Righting America, Slavery, Western Colonialism, White Evangelicals |
by Ahmed Khanani Ahmed Khanani, author of All Politics are God’s Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy (Rutgers University Press, January 2021), is Plowshares Assistant Professor of Politics and co-director of the Center for Social...
Sep 25, 2020 | American History, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, God in a Nutshell, History, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Politics, QAnon, Racism, Slavery, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trey Smith, Vaccination, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Trey Smith’s The Coming Storm: A Donald J. Trump Documentary. Image via Youtube “Many, many soldiers . . . died for the freedom of many people of other shades and colors, some of whom were sold out by their own kinsmen and...
Aug 28, 2020 | Bob Jones, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Ernest Sandeen, Fundamentalism, George Marsden, God's Empire, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jerry Falwell, Sr., John Fea, John R. Rice, Liberty University, New Social History, Northwestern Bible School, Racism, Scopes Trial, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, William Bell Riley, World's Christian Fundamentals Association |
by William Trollinger William Bell Riley. Photo courtesy of Minneapolis Star-Tribune. I will get to Jerry Falwell, Jr. in a moment. But first, a look at the first great fundamentalist emperor. I fell in love with the “new social history” at the University of...
Jul 10, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Carolyn Renee Dupont, Christian Right, Creationism, Culture War, Darwin, Evangelicals, Evolution, Feminism, Frances FitzGerald, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jonathan Edwards, Ken Ham, Racism, Religious Rhetorics, Secularism, Sin, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Jerry Falwell, Sr. Photo by William Sauro of the New York Times. In her magisterial work, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, Frances FitzGerald brilliantly explains a dynamic at the very heart of the contemporary Christian...
Jul 7, 2020 | Christian Ethics, Christian Right, Civil War, Colonization, Constantine, Crusades, Darwin, History, Jesus, Racism, Sermon on the Mount, Sin, Slavery |
by Susan Trollinger Modern Semi-Truck on a Twilight Highway. Image courtesy of skuid.com Traveling east on I-70 the other day, Bill and I passed a semi with a sticker on the back of its trailer. It was a simple graphic on which appeared a four-lane road (drawn in...
