Jul 26, 2023 | Adrian Bardon, Age of the Earth, Anti-Vaxxers, Certainty, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Conservative Evangelicals, Consumerism, Creation Care, Dispensational Premillennialism, Donald Trump, Economics of Climate Change, Environmental Science, Evangelical Climate Initiative, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Evolution, Fundamentalist Textbooks, Galileo Galilei, Genesis, Heliocentrism, Higher Education, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Louise Huang, Man-made Climate Change, Martin Luther, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nicolaus Copernicus, Observational Science, Paris Agreement, Politics, Public Education, Rachel Roller, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Safe Schools, Science, Scientific Method, Sustainable Development Goals, Terry Defoe, Textbooks, The Genesis Flood, The Truth About Denial, Trump Supporters, Young Earth Creationism |
by Terry Defoe Pastor Terry Defoe is an emeritus member of the clergy who served congregations in Western Canada from 1982 to 2016, and who ministered to students on the campuses of the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. He is the author...
Jun 13, 2023 | Anti-Gay Hate, Anti-Gay Protests, Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, Book Banning, Children, Drag Bans, Drag Queen Story Hour, Emily Johnson, Gay Pride, Gender Identity, Gender Roles, Homophobia, Human Rights Campaign, LGBT Issues, LGBTQ+ abuse, LGBTQ+ Identity, LGBTQ+ Pride, LGBTQ+ Rights, Matthew Shepard, Michelle Tea, Moms for Liberty, Moral Panic, National Center for Transgender Equality, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Proud Boys, Religion and Politics, Southern Poverty Law Center, Sybastian Smith, Transgender Youth, Westboro Baptist Church |
by Patrick Thomas Supporters in Palm Springs, California rally in protest to anti-drag legislation. April 18, 2023. Photo by Tara Gray at The Desert Sun. In 2023, the need to celebrate Pride month seems more urgent than usual. Given the increasing presence of far...
May 17, 2023 | A Secular Age, Adolf Hitler, American Democracy, American History, Biblical Literalism, Charles Taylor, Conservative Evangelicals, Dissent, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Gardner Taylor, Global Warming, Goldwater Rule, Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy, History and Politics, Hospitality, How (Not) to be Secular, James K. A. Smith, January 6, 2021, Kenneth Zagacki, LGBTQ+ Rights, Metaphor, Parrhesia, Political Rhetoric, Religion and History, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Secularism, Stanley Hauerwas, The Creative Power of Metaphor, The Immaculate Mistake, Trump Supporters, Vaclev Havel, Walt Whitman, White Evangelicals, Women's Rights |
by William Trollinger 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...
Apr 24, 2023 | Anti-Vaxxers, Bible, Biblical Authority, Biblical Literalism, Catholicism, Certainty, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Critical Race Theory, David Barton, Descartes, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Fox News, Harold Bloom, Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah, Immigration, John Calvin, Ken Ham, Moses, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Richard Elliott Friedman, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Southern Baptist Convention, White Supremacy |
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...
Feb 23, 2023 | Anti-Asian Violence, Asian Americans, Br. Thomas Nguyen, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, COVID-19, George Floyd, Glenmary Home Missionaries, Racism, Religion and Politics, Silence, Systemic Racism, Visibility |
by Br. Thomas Nguyen, G.H.M. An Asian woman holds a sign during an anti-violence rally in New York City. Photo by Jim Wilson of The New York Times. Br. Thomas is a brother of The Glenmary Home Missionaries, a community that ministers to rural populations in the United...
Jan 16, 2023 | Anti-Environmentalism, Arlie Russel Hochschild, Capitalism, Christian Environmental Stewardship, Christian Right, Climate Change, Conservationism, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Earth Day, Francis Schaeffer, Ken Ham, National Association of Evangelicals, Neall Pogue, Religion and Politics, Religion and the Environment, Robert Dugan, Strangers in Their Own Land, The Lost Environmentalists, The Nature of the Religious Right |
by William Trollinger Image of Neall W. Pogue’s book cover for The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement (Cornell University Press, 2022) Neall Pogue is an assistant professor of instruction...