May 10, 2023 | Book Banning, Evangelical Education, Jemar Tisby, Jewerl Maxwell, Julie L. Moore, Lynching, Marion Community Remembrance Project Coalition, Marion, Indiana, PEN America, Safe Schools, Systemic Racism, Taylor University, White Evangelical Racism, White Fragility |
by William Trollinger Photograph from the 1930 Lynching in Marion, Indiana. White fragility is really a thing. When pressed, Taylor University’s provost, Jewerl Maxwell, explained to writing professor Julie Moore that the specific reason she was being fired had to do...
May 4, 2023 | Bob Jones University, Cedarville University, Evangelical Education, Jemar Tisby, Jewerl Maxwell, Julie L. Moore, Michael Lindsay, Mike Pence, Racial Justice, Racism, Safe Schools, Sexual Abuse, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Taylor University, The Color of Compromise, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Entry to Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. Image via Star 106.9. As one who taught for eight years at a “moderate” evangelical university, I speak from personal experience when I say that the gap between so-called moderate evangelical schools...
Apr 11, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Authority, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist Bible, Jefferson Bible, Jesus, Ken Ham, Safe Schools, Thomas Jefferson |
by William Trollinger Today we revisit a post from November 8, 2021 in which we examine the use of “creative editing” of the Bible that is done at the Creation Museum, especially when it comes to the representation of Jesus. Teachings of Jesus placard on...
Feb 17, 2023 | Asbury University, Biblically Consistent Curriculum, Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Protest, Revival, Safe Schools, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence, Thomas White, Title IX |
By Alex Mattackal Image of Survivors Protesting at Cedarville University. Image credit: Emilie Schulze. Alex Mattackal is a current J.D. candidate and holds a B.A. in International Studies and Spanish from Cedarville University. She took two years after her...
Aug 30, 2022 | 3 Quarks Daily, Adam and Eve, Allosaurus, Answers in Genesis, Association for Biblical Astronomy, Atonement, Biblical Authority, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, BioLogos, Bryan College, Calvin College, Christian Colleges, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Darwin, Deborah Haarsma, Dennis Venema, Diorama, Dragon Legends, Evangelical Education, Evangelical History, Evolution, Flat Earther, Flood Geology, Genesis, Henry Morris, Historical Science, History, History and Politics, Hope Ministries, Institute for Creation Science, John MacArthur, Ken Ham, Martin Luther King, Jr., Museums, Natural History, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, Old Earth Creationism, Paul Braterman, Politics, Racism, Religion and History, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Righting America, Ronald Numbers, Safe Schools, Science, Scopes Trial, Six-Day Creation, Staring Points, Uncategorized, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy, Young Earth Creationism |
by Paul Braterman Editor’s Note: Below is Dr. Paul Braterman’s review of Righting America at the Creation Museum. For us, the best part of this generous review is that Braterman covers and understands all parts of our argument. More than this, we...
Aug 26, 2022 | Abeka Books, American History, Ancient World, Answers in Genesis, Apostles of Reason, Aristotle, Biblical Authority, Bob Jones University, Capitalism, Church History, Civil Rights Movement, Evangelical Education, Evangelical History, Fascism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Textbooks, Hijacking History, History and Politics, Kathleen Wellman, Lost Cause Myth, Martin Luther, Marxism, McCarthyism, Medieval History, Molly Worthen, Patricia Engler, Safe Schools, Secularism, Socialism, Thomas Aquinas, University of Dayton, White Supremacy, Women's Rights |
by William Trollinger Photo by Patricia Engler, via Answers in Genesis Sometimes this blog simply writes itself. A few weeks ago we ran a post on Kathleen Wellman’s Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters (Oxford, 2021). In this...
