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 celebrated...
Jun 5, 2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Breonna Taylor, Charlottesville, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, George Floyd, Jesus, Ken Ham, Police Brutality, Racism, Sin, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Photo Credit: Allie Caren, Washington Post (2020) In late 2007, we were asked by Mike Castle, then pastor at Cross Creek Church here in Dayton, to give a presentation on Evolution Sunday (which in 2008 was February 10). In...
Jun 2, 2020 | Ahmaud Arbery, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Breonna Taylor, Charlottesville, Complementarian Theology, Creation Museum, Darwin, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, George Floyd, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Racism, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger George Floyd, who died May 25th, 2020 after a white police officer knelt on his neck for at least seven minutes. Photo from Facebook via Wikimedia Commons. So, when does silence equal racism? As everyone knows by now, on the evening of May 25, in...
May 26, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Anthony Moore, Biblically Consistent Curriculum, Cedarville University, Central State University, Christian Colleges, Franklin Graham, Fundamentalism, Higher Learning Commission, Joy White, Julie L. Moore, Julie Roys, Loren Reno, Mark DeMoss, Megan Lively, Paige Patterson, Racism, Ruth Lowrie Markham, Sexual Harassment, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Thomas Mach, Thomas White, Title IX, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy, Willow Creek Community Church |
by William Trollinger Thomas White, president of Cedarville University with Founders Hall in the background on May 6, 2014. (Columbus Dispatch photo by Tom Dodge) Here is the short version of the Cedarville scandal. (For the full version, see here, here, and here.)...
Mar 13, 2020 | Asbury University, Brigham Young University, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Same-Sex Attraction, White Evangelicals |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox Rebecca Barrett-Fox is Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she researches and writes...
Jan 31, 2020 | Donald Trump, Mother Jones, Randall Balmer, Red Letter Christians, Religion News Service, Shane Claiborne, Stephanie Mencimer, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Worldwide Armageddon” image via WorldNews/ChristianNews/Prophecy Updates It is 2020, Donald Trump has made more than 16,200 false or misleading statements in his three years as president, and yet white evangelicals remain...
