Jun 20, 2023 | 3 Quarks Daily, Adam and Eve, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Australian Question Lobby, Biblical Authority, Biblical Interpretation, Black Lives Matter, Bodie Hodge, Boris Johnson, Chief Ministry Officer, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Conspiracy Theories, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Economics of Climate Change, Evolution, Fossil Fuels, Gender Roles, Great Reset, Heartland Institute, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Science, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau, Ken Ham, Martin Iles, Paul Braterman, Rhetoric, World Economic Forum, Young Earth Creationism |
by Paul Braterman Paul Braterman is Professor Emeritus in Chemistry, University of North Texas, and Honorary Research Fellow (formerly Reader) at the University of Glasgow. His research has involved topics related to the early Earth and the origins of life, and...
Jun 6, 2023 | Anna Young, Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Bonnie Dow, Donald Trump, Evil, Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy, Jennifer Wingard, Joshua Gunn, Michael J. Steudeman, Paul Johnson, Political Rhetoric, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Robert Ivie, Roderick Hart, Rodney Kennedy, Terry Eagleton, The Immaculate Mistake, Trump Supporters, Wizard of Oz Rule |
by Rodney Kennedy Photo illustration by Derreck Johnson. Photo by David Becker/Getty Images. Via Slate.com. 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...
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...
Aug 4, 2022 | 1776 Commission, American Exceptionalism, American History, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Biblically Consistent Curriculum, Capitalism, Christian Nationalism, Confederacy, Critical Race Theory, Culture War, Evangelical History, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Textbooks, Hijacking History, Historiography, History, History and Politics, History of Science, Kathleen Wellman, Lost Cause Myth, Makin v. Carson, Politics, Public Education, Religion and Politics, Religious Freedom, Rhetoric, Slavery, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills Standards, Texas Freedom Network, Universal Healthcare, Western Colonialism, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Book cover for Kathleen Wellman’s Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters (Oxford University Press, 2021). Kathleen Wellman is Dedman Family Distinguished Professor of History and Altshuler...
Jul 8, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Bible, Biblical Illiteracy, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Cryptozoology, Genesis, Inerrancy, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Museum of the Bible, Paul Thomas, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Science, Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and the Museum of the Bible, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Note: The following is taken (with slight edits) from the original version of my review, which appeared in the March 2022 issue Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Full citation information and a link to the article is included at the...
Mar 30, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Anthropocene, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Creation Science, Environmental Science, Evolution, Historical Science, Judith Butler, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Precarity, Religion and Science, Religion and the Environment, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Stephen Toulmin, Thomas Kuhn, White Evangelicals |
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)...
