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...
May 4, 2023 | Bob Jones University, Cedarville University, Evangelical Education, Jemar Tisby, Jewerl Maxwell, Julie L. Moore, Michael Lindsay, Mike Pence, Racial Justice, Racism, Safe Schools, Sexual Abuse, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Taylor University, The Color of Compromise, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Entry to Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. Image via Star 106.9. As one who taught for eight years at a “moderate” evangelical university, I speak from personal experience when I say that the gap between so-called moderate evangelical schools...
Jan 23, 2023 | Ark Encounter, Bill Bolin, Casey Ryan Kelly, Christian America, Christian Nationalism, Conservative Evangelicals, Conspiracy Theories, COVID-19, Creation Museum, D. James Kennedy, David Barton, FloodGate Church, Lauren Boebert, MAGA, Pilgrimage, Planet Lockdown, Racism, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Segregation, Six-Day Creation, White Evangelical Racism, 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 he...
Nov 15, 2022 | Alex Jones, American Creationism, American Democracy, American Exceptionalism, American History, Andrew Whitehead, Anthea Butler, Anti-Semitism, Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Brian Kaylor, Catholicism, Christian Nationalism, Church and State, Clay Clark, COVID-19, Dominic Sanfilippo, Elders of Zion, Fundamentalism, InfoWars, Iran-Contra Affair, January 6, 2021, Jesus and John Wayne, John Birch Society, Kristin Kobes du Mez, Laudato Si, Martin Buber, Michael Flynn, Mike Lindell, NRA, Oliver North, Peter Wehner, Pope Francis, QAnon, ReAwaken America Tour, Religion and Politics, Rodney Kennedy, Roger Stone, Samuel L. Perry, Southern Baptist Convention, Trump Supporters, White Evangelical Racism, White Supremacy |
by Dominic Sanfilippo Dominic Sanfilippo is researching political and theological polarization, conspiratorial rhetoric, and emerging fundamentalist influences on American Catholicism while pursuing a master’s degree in theological studies at the University of...