Mar 24, 2026 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Anti-Communism, Barry Hankins, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christianity and the Social Crisis, David Barton, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Evangelicals, Evolution, Franklin Roosevelt, God's Empire, God's Rascal, J. Frank Norris, James Talarico, Joseph McCarthy, Katherine Lee Bates, MAGA Evangelicals, Prosperity Gospel, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Social Gospel, Socialism, Socrates, Walter Rauschenbusch, War, William Bell Riley |
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...
Mar 9, 2026 | Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Derrick DeBruce, Doug Battle, Equal Justice Initiative, Kay Ivey, Racism, Rodney Kennedy, Sonny Burton, Tori Battle |
by William Trollinger Charles “Sonny” Burton. Image via Telemundo Dallas. Maybe, just maybe, by the time you read this, Alabama’s governor Kay Ivey will have done the right thing. Maybe. Let’s start with one basic and very important fact: ...
Jan 30, 2026 | Alex Pretti, Charles Payne, David Blight, Donald Trump, Fannie Lou Hamer, Franklin Graham, Henry Tasto, ICE, Immigration, Johnathan Daniels, Kristi Noem, Lynching, MAGA Evangelicals, Renee Good, Rodney Kennedy, Stanley Hauerwas, Tom Homan, White Christian Nationalism |
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...
Jan 20, 2026 | Anti-Vaxxers, Brandy X. Lee, Creation Museum, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evolution, Freeman Dyson, Kenneth R. Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District,, MAGA Evangelicals, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rodney Kennedy, Science, Scopes Trial, Wright Brothers |
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...
Dec 16, 2025 | Anti-Immigration, Daniel J. Harrington, S.J., Democracy, Dissent, Donald Trump, Empathy, George Lakoff, George Pickett, George W. Bush, Herod, Ilhan Omar, Islamophobia, James David Duncan, Kenneth Burke, MAGA, MAGA Evangelicals, Racism, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric of War, Robert E. Lee, Robert Ivie, Rodney Kennedy, Stacey Abrams, Stanley Hauerwas, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, Venezuela, White Evangelical Racism, 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...
Oct 21, 2025 | Donald Trump, Franklin Roosevelt, Geneva Convention, Good Neighbor Policies, Good Samaritan, Government Shutdown, Great Depression, Immigration, Individualism, Japanese Internment, MAGA Evangelicals, Mary Stuckey, Neighborliness, New Deal, Nihilism, Pete Hegseth, Pragmatism, Reaganism, Robert Ivie, Robert McElvaine, Rodney Kennedy, Scarcity, Toxic Masculinity |
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...
