Oct 3, 2023 | American History, Biblical Literalism, Charles Payne, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, George Wallace, Historical Fallacy, James Meredith, Jim Crow, John Lewis, June Johnson, Leon Hannaford, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Percy Julian, Racism, Redistricting, Robert Rowland, Rodney Kennedy, Ron DeSantis, Segregation, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Slavery, Supreme Court, Systemic Racism, Trey Lamar, Voting Rights Act, 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...
Jul 14, 2022 | 1776 Commission, Abeka Books, American History, American Revolution, Ancient Greece, Andrew Carnegie, Apartheid, Capitalism, Catholicism, Christian Right, Christian Schooling, Christopher Columbus, Communism, Enlightenment, Evangelical Education, Fascism, Fundamentalism, Hijacking History, History, History of Science, Isaac Newton, Kathleen Wellman, McCarthyism, Native Americans, New Deal, Racism, Religion and History, Rhodesia, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Slavery, Socialism, Twelve Stones Academy, William McKinley |
by William Trollinger Book cover of Kathleen Wellman’s Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why it Matters (Oxford University Press, 2021) If you know anything about history, this post will make you laugh and/or cry. And/or make you...
Jun 15, 2022 | American History, Biblical Interpretation, Billy Graham, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblindness, George Wallace, History, J. Russell Hawkins, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jim Crow, Race and Religion, Racial Justice, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Southern White Evangelicals, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger J. Russell (“Rusty”) Hawkins is Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is also author of The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy, which...
May 31, 2022 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Buffalo, Christian Right, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblind Individualism, Colorblindness, Gender Identity, George Floyd, Insurrection, J. Russell Hawkins, January 6, 2021, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, One Blood, One Race, Politics, Racism, Religion and Politics, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Sin, Slavery, The Age of Fracture, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Cover Image for The Bible Told Them So: How Souther Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins (Oxford University Press, 2021) In his terrific 2021 book, The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to...
