Apr 25, 2019 | Christian Colleges, Excalibur, Molly Worthen, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, Taylor University, The New York Times, Tim Dillon, Westmont College, White Evangelicals, White Jesus, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger There’s no getting around it. White evangelicalism has a race problem. And some white evangelicals are getting the message. So it is that some Westmont College students are agitating for the removal of the “white Jesus” in the campus...
Apr 18, 2019 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Excalibur, Mike Pence, Politics, Taylor University, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Conservatives at Taylor University can breathe a sigh of relief. Mike Pence is on his way. The leftist assault has been thwarted. Just 14 months ago the alarm was sounded at the evangelical school of 1900 undergraduates in Upland, Indiana. A...
Jan 14, 2019 | #MeToo Movement, Adam Laats, Areligious, Ark Encounter Attendance, Blog Updates, Corinth Presbyterian Church, Donald Trump, Elesha Coffman, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelical Education, Faithland Map, Feminism, Flood Geology, Gender Roles, Herbie Miller, Immigration, Joel Osteen, Margaret Bendroth, Moody Bible Institute, Paige Patterson, Southern Baptist Convention, Taylor University, Tim Gloege, Zach Spidel |
by William Trollinger Faithland map, 2018. Created by Alex Egoshin using data provided by the Association of Religion Data Archives. 2018 was significant for the rightingamerica blog, both in the variety of authors’ voices and topics featured, and the number of...
Jun 4, 2018 | Apostles of Reason, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Joshua Pease, Laurie Goodstein, Molly Worthen, Moody Bible Institute, Red Letter Christians, Taylor University, The New York Times, Washington Post, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger As we have said before, one of the few benefits of the Donald Trump presidency is that many smart journalists and scholars are now writing about white evangelicals in an effort to understand these Christians who make up his most loyal...
Apr 9, 2018 | Adam Laats, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalist U, Taylor University, University of Dayton, Wheaton College |
by Adam Laats Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History (by courtesy) at Binghamton University (State University of New York). His most recent book – which just came out – is Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education (Oxford UP). His...
Apr 6, 2018 | Christian Colleges, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Excalibur, intolerance, Taylor University |
by William Trollinger In looking at Excalibur – the self-advertised “publication of the Taylor University conservative underground” — here is what we see: The authors of Excalibur claim that – because of “our current cultural climate” as well as “leftist trends”...
