Jan 3, 2022 | Anti-Intellectualism, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Capitol Riot, Christian Ethics, Christian Right, Civility, Conservative Evangelicals, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Evolution, Fascism, Insurrection, Israel, January 6, 2021, Peter Enns, Political Rhetoric, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Roe v. Wade, Secularism, Slavery, Social Media |
by Terry Defoe Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 carry a flag saying “Jesus is my Savior. Trump is my President.” Image by Selcuk Acar via The New Republic. Pastor Terry Defoe is an emeritus member of the clergy who served congregations in...
Sep 6, 2021 | American Creationism, Answers in Genesis, Anticommunism, Bodie Hodge, Butler Act, Carl R. Weinberg, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Creationism, Culture War, Darwin, David Goldstein, Donald Trump, Evolution, Frederick Engels, George McCready Price, Henry Morris, Institute for Creation Science, J. Frank Norris, John Scopes, Karl Marx, Ken Ham, Labor Battles, Martha Moore Avery, Marxism, Red Dynamite, Religion and Science, Robert Jeffress, Satanism, Science, Scopes Trial, Secularism, Social Evolution, Socialism, William Bell Riley, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Book Cover for Carl R. Weinberg’s Red Dynamite: Creationism: Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (2021, Cornell University Press) Carl R. Weinberg is Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor...
Aug 12, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Nationalism, Culture War, Donald Trump, Ken Ham, Pedophilia, QAnon, Secularism, Trey Smith, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism |
by William Trollinger Ken Ham’s Secular Worldview. Image via Facebook. Referring to the image displayed here, which Ken Ham has circulated via Twitter and Facebook, a friend asked if, by adding the “pedophilia” flag to the “secular worldview” fortress, Ham “is...
Jul 1, 2021 | Abortion, American History, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Catholicism, Civil Rights Movement, Clergy Abuse Crisis, Conscience, Conscientious Objector, Contraception, Culture War, Divorce, Follow Your Conscience, History, Humana Vitae, Joe Biden, LGBT Issues, Moral Formation, Patrick O’Boyle, Pete Cajka, Politics, Religion and Politics, Secularism, Shane MacCarthy, Thomas Aquinas, Vietnam War |
by William Trollinger Peter Cajka is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. from Boston College, and before that he was an undergraduate student here at the University of Dayton, where I...
Nov 12, 2020 | A Secular World, Charles Taylor, Christian Nationalism, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelicals, Evolution, Fear, Imagined Communities, John Fea, Paula White, Religious Imagination, Rodney Kennedy, Secularism, Secularization, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, 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. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Sep 30, 2020 | Areligious, Empty Churches Project, James Heft, Jan Stets, King's College, McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, Secularism, Secularization |
by William Trollinger Poster for the October 5, 2020 Hesburgh Lecture, “The Rise of Secularism in America.” Over the past few years I have been involved in a project of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at University of Southern California...
