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Randall Balmer | Righting America

Resisting the Evangelical Power Grab

Dec 3, 2024 | Abortion, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Intellectualism, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Gay Marriage, George Lakoff, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, History, Ken Ham, Kevin Kruse, Moral Majority, Newt Gingrich, Racism, Randall Balmer, School Prayer, Scopes Trial, Temperance, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism | 4 comments

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...

Mike Johnson: Not for the People, and Not a True Evangelical

Oct 31, 2023 | Anti-Abortion, Anti-Environmentalism, Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, Christian Nationalism, Constitution, Creation Museum, Culture War, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy, House Speaker, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, MAGA, Mike Johnson, Randall Balmer, Religion and Politics, Republicans, Rodney Kennedy, Secularism, Shreveport, The Immaculate Mistake, Trump Supporters, Women's Rights, Young Earth Creationism | 2 comments

by Rodney Kennedy Donald Trump with newly elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson. Image via rightwingwatch.org. 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...

More Fun in Fundamentalism: Halloween is now National Evangelism Day!

Oct 28, 2021 | American History, Answers in Genesis, Bible School, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Halloween, Ken Ham, Living Waters, Multnomah University, National Evangelism Day, Randall Balmer, Ray Comfort, Trick-or-Treat, University of Dayton | 0 comments

by William Trollinger A screenshot from the Answers in Genesis Online Store featuring a National Evangelism Day resource by AiG’s Bodie Hodge. This semester here at the University of Dayton I am teaching my Ph.D. seminar on American Evangelicalism, with a...

Owen Strachan: Rip Van Winkle and Prophet of the “Unwoke”

Oct 1, 2021 | Biblical Literalism, Christianity and Wokeness, Evangelical Rhetoric, Inerrancy, Ken Ham, Liberalism, Owen Stachan, Racism, Randall Balmer, Rip Van Winkle, Rodney Kennedy, Unwoke, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, William Jennings Bryan, Wokeness | 0 comments

by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...