Aug 23, 2019 | Christian Right, Culture War, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, J.D. Greear, Paige Patterson, Politics, Rodney Kennedy, Slavery, Southern Baptist Convention, White Evangelicals |
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)...
Jun 7, 2019 | Civil War, Confederate Statues, KKK, McKinley Birthplace Museum, Racism, Slavery, Uncategorized, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Last Sunday, I was at the William McKinley Memorial Museum in Niles, Ohio – McKinley’s birthplace – to speak on “Statues, Flags, and the Ongoing Battle Over the Civil War.” Given McKinley’s role as a Union soldier, it seemed quite the appropriate...
Jan 29, 2019 | Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Science, Creationism, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Global Warming, Historical Science, History, Slavery, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan and William Trollinger “Laboratory Science – biomedical” by Sky Noir is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Last Sunday, Bill taught the first of four classes that we are offering on Creationism and Science at Westminster Presbyterian Church here...
Oct 26, 2018 | Birth of a Nation, Civil War, D.W. Griffith, Emanuel AME Church, History, intolerance, KKK, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Redemption, Robert E. Lee, Slavery, Statement on Confederate Monuments, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger “Redemption.” In Christian theology, it is a powerful and hopeful term referring to the deliverance from sin and its consequences. But in the context of U.S. history, “Redemption” is a word that has much less positive connotations. Thursday night...
Feb 5, 2018 | KKK, Persecution, Racial Justice, Racism, Slavery |
by William Trollinger “Was it the Ku Klux Klan who lynched a black man here in the 1870s?” This was the final question I (Bill) was asked Saturday afternoon at the Sandusky (OH) Library, after my presentation on “Terrorizing Immigrants and Catholics: The Ohio KKK in...
Dec 15, 2016 | Answers in Genesis, Bible, Biblical Literalism, Bodie Hodge, Creationism, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Racial Justice, Racism, Slavery, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger As we noted in our last post, Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis (AiG) expend a good deal of energy – in the Creation Museum and in their writings – making the case that racist hatred and intolerance is unbiblical. This would seem commendable,...
