Jul 10, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Carolyn Renee Dupont, Christian Right, Creationism, Culture War, Darwin, Evangelicals, Evolution, Feminism, Frances FitzGerald, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jonathan Edwards, Ken Ham, Racism, Religious Rhetorics, Secularism, Sin, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Jerry Falwell, Sr. Photo by William Sauro of the New York Times. In her magisterial work, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, Frances FitzGerald brilliantly explains a dynamic at the very heart of the contemporary Christian Right....
Jul 7, 2020 | Christian Ethics, Christian Right, Civil War, Colonization, Constantine, Crusades, Darwin, History, Jesus, Racism, Sermon on the Mount, Sin, Slavery |
by Susan Trollinger Modern Semi-Truck on a Twilight Highway. Image courtesy of skuid.com Traveling east on I-70 the other day, Bill and I passed a semi with a sticker on the back of its trailer. It was a simple graphic on which appeared a four-lane road (drawn in...
Jun 5, 2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Breonna Taylor, Charlottesville, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, George Floyd, Jesus, Ken Ham, Police Brutality, Racism, Sin, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Photo Credit: Allie Caren, Washington Post (2020) In late 2007, we were asked by Mike Castle, then pastor at Cross Creek Church here in Dayton, to give a presentation on Evolution Sunday (which in 2008 was February 10). In...
Dec 3, 2019 | Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Ethics, Christian Right, Divorce, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelical Theological Society, Evangelicals, Gender Roles, Jesus, Marriage, Religious Rhetorics, Sexual Violence, Sin, Wayne Grudem |
by Emily Hunter McGowin Today’s post is from Emily Hunter McGowin, who is Associate Lecturer of Theology at Wheaton College. She is the author of Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical Theology of the Family. She holds a PhD in theology from the...
Aug 19, 2019 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Carl R. Weinberg, Christian Right, Church and State, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Evolution, Ken Ham, Labor Unions, Marxism, National Education Association, Observational Science, Politics, Public Schools, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Science, Secularism, Sin, Young Earth Creationism |
by Carl R. Weinberg Today’s post comes from Carl R. Weinberg, Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the author of Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois...
Jan 12, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Descent into Darkness, Karen Naim, Sin |
by Karen Naim Last fall, Sue taught an upper-division (undergraduate) course in the English Department at the University of Dayton on visual rhetoric. In that course, her students read a variety of theoretical/critical books and essays that explore how images,...
