Dec 2, 2025 | Anti-Racism, Brenda Wineapple, Civil Rights Movement, Dayton, Evangelical History, Evolution, Glenn Branch, History, History and Politics, Jerry Bergman, Journal of Creation, Journal of Negro History, Lynching, National Center for Science Education, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Teddy Roosevelt, The Other Side of the Scopes Trial, White Evangelical Racism, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson |
by William Trollinger Burning of 80 ft. cross, KKK, August 9, 1925. Jerry Bergman’s campaign to invent an anti-racist William Jennings Bryan continues apace. This time, it involves a review of Brenda Wineapple’s best-selling book on the Scopes Trial. It is...
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...
Dec 3, 2024 | Abortion, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Intellectualism, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Gay Marriage, George Lakoff, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, History, Ken Ham, Kevin Kruse, Moral Majority, Newt Gingrich, Racism, Randall Balmer, School Prayer, Scopes Trial, Temperance, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
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 he...
Nov 26, 2024 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American Exceptionalism, American History, Christian Nationalism, Donald Trump, English, Mayflower, Native Americans, New Apostolic Reformation, Pilgrims, Project 2025, Religious Freedom, Slavery, Squanto, Thanksgiving, Thomas Hunt, Tom Cotton, Wampanoag People, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger First-grader Thanksgiving Drawing. Via BlogHoppin. Anyone who is paying attention at all knows that White Christian Nationalism is alive and well and on the rise in America. It’s everywhere, and these folks are thrilled that Trump the...
Nov 4, 2024 | American Democracy, Barack Obama, Brian L Ott, David Blight, Dissent, Donald Trump, Flannery O'Connor, Greg Dickinson, Hush Harbors, James C. Scott, Jim Crow, Jonathan Haidt, Maggie Haberman, Patrick Healy, Racism, Robert L. Ivie, Social Media, Vorris L. Nunley, White Evangelical Racism, White Men, White Privilege, White Supremacy, Zora Neale Hurston |
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 he...
Sep 10, 2024 | American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Education, Atheism, Biology, Butler Act, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, Edward Larson, Eugenics, Evolution, Glenn Branch, H. L. Mencken, Henry Morris, J. Frank Norris, James Gilbert, Jerry Bergman, John C. Whitcomb, John Scopes, Leonard Darwin, Michael Kazin, National Center for Science Education, Racism, Reverse Racism, Ruth Benedict, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Stephen Jay Gould, Vincent Torley, White Evangelical Racism, William Jennings Bryan |
by Glenn Branch Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. He is the author of numerous articles on evolution...
