Dec 12, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bodie Hodge, Carl Weinberg, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evolution, Freedom Guard, House Speaker, John Fea, Ken Ham, Marxism, Mike Johnson, Public Religion Research Institute, Red Dynamite, Righting America, School Shootings, Secularism, Social Evolution, Statement of Faith, Tax Breaks, The Lie, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson takes questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 14, 2023. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Speaker of the House Mike...
Nov 7, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Feasibility Report, Creation Museum, David McMillan, Ken Ham, Mike Johnson, Secularism, Tax Breaks, We Believe in Dinosaurs, White Evangelicals, Williamstown, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (right) with Ken Ham (left). Image via Answers in Genesis. Ken Ham has to be thrilled. Mike Johnson – young Earth creationist, anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion extremist, and election denier – is...
Oct 31, 2023 | Anti-Abortion, Anti-Environmentalism, Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation, Christian Nationalism, Constitution, Creation Museum, Culture War, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy, House Speaker, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, MAGA, Mike Johnson, Randall Balmer, Religion and Politics, Republicans, Rodney Kennedy, Secularism, Shreveport, The Immaculate Mistake, Trump Supporters, Women's Rights, Young Earth Creationism |
by Rodney Kennedy Donald Trump with newly elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson. Image via rightwingwatch.org. 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...
Sep 26, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Ark Encounter Feasibility Report, Book Banning, Capitalism, Climate Skeptics, Critical Race Theory, Dan Phelps, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Identity, Marxism, Secularism, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Ark Encounter in Williamstown, KY. Image via JoeMyGod. It has been exactly ten years since Williamstown, Kentucky, underwrote $62.5m worth of bonds that made possible the building of Ark Encounter. This anniversary seems the perfect opportunity...
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...
Mar 27, 2023 | American History, Ashbury University, Barbara Biesecker, Biblical Literalism, Billy Sunday, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, First Great Awakening, John Howard Yoder, Jonathan Edwards, MAGA, Melancholy, Repentance, Revival, Rodney Kennedy, Secularism, Slavoj Zizek, Social Justice, William E. Barton |
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...
