Aug 19, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, Abolition, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Founder's Rhetoric, Fugitive Slave Act, Inherent Rights, Insurrection, January 6, 2021, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Jr., Reconstruction, Second Ku Klux Klan, Slavery, Systemic Racism, Voting Rights, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Below is an excerpt of an essay of mine that was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, an issue which is devoted to white Christian nationalism and education. A link to the complete article can...
Jul 30, 2024 | 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Br. Thomas Nguyen, Civil Rights Movement, Lynching, Racism, Systemic Racism |
by Br. Thomas Nguyen, G.H.M. Br. Thomas is a brother of The Glenmary Home Missionaries, a community that ministers to rural populations in the United States. In May Br. Thomas graduated with a M.A. in Pastoral Ministry from the University of Dayton. He currently...
Mar 8, 2024 | 1619 Project, Christian Nationalism, Communism, James Darsey, Joseph McCarthy, Racism, Rodney Kennedy, Shou Zi Chew, Slavery, Systemic Racism, TikTok, Tom Cotton |
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...
Oct 25, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Classical Music, Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Economic Inequality, Intersectionality, Jemar Tisby, Ken Ham, Redlining, Social Justice, Systemic Racism, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger An acorn woodpecker in an affluent section of Los Angeles. 2023: Genaro Molina, LATimes. Ken Ham’s obsession with denying structural racism has gone completely off the rails. Take, for example, his bizarre response to a Los Angeles...
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...
May 10, 2023 | Book Banning, Evangelical Education, Jemar Tisby, Jewerl Maxwell, Julie L. Moore, Lynching, Marion Community Remembrance Project Coalition, Marion, Indiana, PEN America, Safe Schools, Systemic Racism, Taylor University, White Evangelical Racism, White Fragility |
by William Trollinger Photograph from the 1930 Lynching in Marion, Indiana. White fragility is really a thing. When pressed, Taylor University’s provost, Jewerl Maxwell, explained to writing professor Julie Moore that the specific reason she was being fired had to do...