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Presuppositionalism, the Fundamentalist Bubble, and Donald Trump

William Trollinger The fundamentalist bubble is not simply a matter of separate schools, institutions, and media. It is also a matter of separate ideas that cannot be challenged or disputed or proven untrue. It is a matter of impregnable presuppositions. At the...

Life After Fundamentalism

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...

Anti-Intellectualism at Warp Speed

by William Trollinger In the end, is the point to make it possible for evangelicals not to think? Bryan Osborne of Answers in Genesis (AiG)  has recently explained the organization’s purpose thusly: The revelation that the Bible’s plain history is true, that...

RACM Year in Review for 2017

by Patrick Thomas This past year marked a number of “firsts” for the RACM blog.  This past April we celebrated one full year of our site. In June we reached the highest number of readers yet, with over 1543 unique visitors over 30 days. And as we end 2017, this marks...