Jun 18, 2018 | Asylum Seekers, Christian Right, Culture War, Dana Milbanks, Evangelicals, Immigration, intolerance, Jeff Sessions, Meghan Henning, Racism, Stephen Colbert, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who...
Jun 4, 2018 | Apostles of Reason, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Joshua Pease, Laurie Goodstein, Molly Worthen, Moody Bible Institute, Red Letter Christians, Taylor University, The New York Times, Washington Post, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger As we have said before, one of the few benefits of the Donald Trump presidency is that many smart journalists and scholars are now writing about white evangelicals in an effort to understand these Christians who make up his most loyal...
May 29, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Daniel Cox, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalism, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, intolerance, LGBT Issues, Secularization, Wheaton College, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger The numbers tell a remarkable story. White evangelicalism is shrinking, and at a brisk rate. While 23% of Americans identified as white and evangelical in 2006, that number had dropped to 17% by 2017. More than this, white evangelicalism is...
May 3, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, David Gushee, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Inerrancy, Jerry Falwell Jr., Ken Ham, Liberty University, Red Letter Christians, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger The fact that white evangelicals have given us President Donald Trump has forced a significant minority of American evangelicals into profound self-examination. Some are simply abandoning the label. One of the most prominent is David Gushee,...
Apr 17, 2018 | Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Harper's, Katha Pollitt, Meghan O’Gieblyn, Mike Pence, The Nation, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger One of the few benefits of the Donald Trump presidency is that many smart journalists are now writing about white evangelicals in an effort to understand these Christians who make up his most loyal constituency. The challenge is that so many...
Jan 29, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, White Evangelicals |
by Adam Laats with William Trollinger Adam Laats’ eagerly anticipated book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, comes out next week from Oxford University Press. We have posed a few questions for Adam about his book, and in this post and...
