Jun 6, 2022 | Ann Coulter, Anti-Vaxxers, Bob Jones, Camille Lewis, Chuck Colson, Donald Trump, Eric Metaxas, Erskine College, Garnet & Gold Forum, Insurrection, Kenneth Burke, Klandamentalism, Oath Keepers, Phil Vischer, Secularism, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Jesus, White Nationalism, William Wilberforce |
by Camille Kaminski Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies. Her...
Feb 28, 2022 | Anthropocene, Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Apocalypticism, Authoritarian Populism, Conservatism, Conservative Evangelicals, Craig White, Donald Trump, End Times, Evangelicals, G. Mitchell Reyes, Gender Roles, History and Politics, Kundai Chirindo, Political Rhetoric, Politics, Populism, Precarity, Rodney Kennedy, Russia, Samson, Strong Man, Tim Alberta, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin |
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)...
Jan 13, 2022 | ACLU, Anti-Intellectualism, Clarence Darrow, COVID-19, Culture War, Darwin, Derrick Harkins, Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Evangelical History, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Evolution, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Historical Science, History, J. Frank Norris, James Forbes, Jeremiah Wright, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Lara Logan, Observational Science, Populism, Rand Paul, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Scopes Trial, The Fundamentals, Tom Cotton, Tucker Carlson, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Word&Way |
by Rodney Kennedy Editor’s Note: this piece appeared earlier this week at Word&Way. We are happy to share it here for our readers! Book Cover, Righting America at the Creation Museum by Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. (2016). Historians...
Aug 30, 2021 | Barack Obama, Biblical Literalism, Carolyn Renee Dupont, Civil War, Fundamentalism, Insurrection, Jason Whitlock, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, QAnon, Racism, Reconstruction, Satanism, Slavery, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ken Ham’s August 26, 2021 Facebook post. Every time I think that Ken Ham cannot go any lower, he does. And he takes his followers with him. On his Facebook page, Ham posted this image of a Daily Wire article entitled...
Aug 6, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American History, Black History, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Donald Trump, History and Politics, Insurrection, Joe Biden, Kevin Kruse, Plagiarism, Racism, Reconstruction, Slavery, Strom Thurmond, Timothy Snyder, Tom Cotton, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Fragility, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Women for Segregation. Image via the Equal Justice Initiative. One thing is for certain. White Americans need lots of tender loving care. The latest campaign to prop up white folks has its origins in the furious response to the 1619 Project, a...
Jun 19, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Black Lives Matter, Confederate Statues, Fox News, George Floyd, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Papa Johns, Racial Justice, Racism, SpongeBob SquarePants, Tucker Carlson, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger SpongeBob SquarePants. Image courtesy of Nickelodeon. This past Saturday Nickolodeon celebrated Pride Month by very strongly suggesting that their popular cartoon character, SpongeBob SquarePants, is gay. LGBTQ+ activists immediately...