Sep 24, 2024 | Adam Laats, Anti-Immigration, Carl Ruby, Cedarville University, Central Christian Church, Christian Colleges, Donald Trump, Fundamentalism, J.D. Vance, James Dobson, Ken Ham, KKK, Red Letter Christians, Springfield, Ohio, Welcome Springfield |
by William Trollinger Members of the Haitian community, from left, Lindsey Aime, James Fleurijean, Rose-Thamar Joseph, Harold Herard, and Viles Dorsainvil, stand for worship with Carl Ruby, pastor at Central Christian Church, in Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday, Sept. 15,...
Jan 31, 2020 | Donald Trump, Mother Jones, Randall Balmer, Red Letter Christians, Religion News Service, Shane Claiborne, Stephanie Mencimer, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Worldwide Armageddon” image via WorldNews/ChristianNews/Prophecy Updates It is 2020, Donald Trump has made more than 16,200 false or misleading statements in his three years as president, and yet white evangelicals remain...
Nov 13, 2019 | Bethel College, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Explo '72, Red Letter Christians, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Life Magazine Cover of Explo ’72. Photo via AbsoluteGrace It was June of 1972, and I was heading into my senior year of high school in Denver. I was president of the youth group in my evangelical church. Driving my red Toyota Corona, I...
Oct 13, 2018 | Andre Johnson, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Jim Wallis, Mark Masthay, Martin Medhurst, Red Letter Christians, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Everyone got woke in the 2016 election.” So said Andre Johnson – Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address at the University of Memphis – at the final keynote panel at last weekend’s Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st-Century Conference...
Jun 4, 2018 | Apostles of Reason, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Joshua Pease, Laurie Goodstein, Molly Worthen, Moody Bible Institute, Red Letter Christians, Taylor University, The New York Times, Washington Post, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger As we have said before, one of the few benefits of the Donald Trump presidency is that many smart journalists and scholars are now writing about white evangelicals in an effort to understand these Christians who make up his most loyal...
May 8, 2018 | Adam Laats, Carl Ruby, Cedarville University, Central Christian Church, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalism, Red Letter Christians, Righting America, The New York Times, Welcome Springfield |
by William Trollinger Evangelical colleges are always having to prove – to parents, donors, and evangelical leaders such as James Dobson or Ken Ham – that they are, to quote Adam Laats, “guardians and teachers of a necessarily vague dream of eternal and unchanging...
