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The Murder of George Floyd, and Ken Ham’s Very Loud Silence

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 | 3 comments

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...

Rape, Sexual Harassment, and More: The Cedarville Stories are Multiplying

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 | 3 comments

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.)...

Discrimination as Love: Asbury, BYU, and LGBTQ+ Students

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 | 0 comments

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...

Finally, An Evangelical Defense of Donald Trump Worth Responding To (It’s Still Terrible, but There It Is)

Dec 31, 2019 | American History, Biblical Interpretation, Christianity Today, Church, Culture War, Dispensational Premillennialism, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Impeachment, James Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jesus, Politics, Rodney Kennedy, Uncategorized, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism | 0 comments

by Rodney Kennedy Evangelical Leaders Pray over Donald Trump. November, 2019. White House Photo. 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...