Dec 4, 2018 | Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Christian Right, Evangelical Education, LGBT Issues, Liberty University, Military Memorials, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger When one thinks of the quintessential Christian Right university, Liberty immediately comes to mind, perhaps followed by Bob Jones. Here in Ohio one thinks of Answers in Genesis University, a.k.a. Cedarville. But there is another school that...
Nov 29, 2018 | American Historian, Christian Right, Christianity Today, Elesha Coffman, John Fea, Laura Jane Gifford, Lerone Martin, Politics, R. Marie Griffith, Rodney Kennedy, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger We have said it again and again, but the emergence of the Christian Right as the GOP’s most reliable constituency AND then – most dramatically – the election of Donald Trump as president has resulted in all sorts of very smart people looking...
Oct 13, 2018 | Andre Johnson, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Jim Wallis, Mark Masthay, Martin Medhurst, Red Letter Christians, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Everyone got woke in the 2016 election.” So said Andre Johnson – Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address at the University of Memphis – at the final keynote panel at last weekend’s Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st-Century Conference...
Oct 3, 2018 | Catholocism, Evangelicals, Jason Hentschel, White Evangelicals |
by Jason A. Hentschel Jason A. Hentschel has a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Dayton, and is currently senior pastor at Wyoming Baptist Church (Wyoming, OH). His research focuses on the intersection of evangelicalism and modern American culture. He has...
Jul 27, 2018 | Donald Trump, Politics, Racism, Seth Dowland, Stephanie McCrummen, White Evangelicals |
William Trollinger Thanks to the fact that an overwhelming percentage of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump and continue to enthusiastically support him – hush money to porn actresses and obeisance to Vladimir Putin notwithstanding – many smart journalists and...
Jul 23, 2018 | Apologetics, Apostles of Reason, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Donald Trump, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Historical Science, Molly Worthen, Observational Science, On Tyrrany, Presuppositionalism, Righting America, Timothy Snyder, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism |
William Trollinger The fundamentalist bubble is not simply a matter of separate schools, institutions, and media. It is also a matter of separate ideas that cannot be challenged or disputed or proven untrue. It is a matter of impregnable presuppositions. At the...
