Mar 9, 2021 | Agnoticism, Areligious, Atheism, Christian Right, Empty Churches, James Heft, S.M., Jan Stets, Religious Non-Affiliation, Secularization |
by William Trollinger Book Cover for Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America, edited by James L. Heft and Jan E. Stets. Image via Oxford University Press. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of religion in 21st-century America is the rapid growth of those who are...
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...
Jun 3, 2019 | Accommodationism, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, contract hypothesis, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelicals, Evolution, Historical Science, Jerry A. Coyne, Michael Behe, Observational Science, Razib Khan, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Sarah Olson, Science, Secularization |
by Sarah Olson Sarah Olson is an undergraduate student majoring in microbiology at Oregon State University, and a member of the National Association of Science Writers. She works at a bookstore curating their science and math sections and reviews popular science books...
Jun 28, 2018 | #MeToo Movement, Areligious, Culture War, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Secularization |
Rebecca Barrett-Fox is Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she researches and writes about religion, hate, and sexuality...
Jun 1, 2018 | Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Culture War, Daniel T. Rodgers, Evangelicals, Feminism, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, LGBT Issues, Nashville Statement, Secularization, The Age of Fracture |
by William Trollinger Why do evangelical leaders and pastors devote so much energy, so much attention, to sex? In particular, evangelical pastors and leaders spend an enormous amount of time delineating what constitutes God-ordained sexuality and God-ordained sexual...
