Jan 25, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Guaranteed Pure, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, Tim Gloege, 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...
Oct 16, 2017 | Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelicals, Joel Osteen, Prosperity Gospel, White Evangelicals |
by Emily McGowin Emily Hunter McGowin has a PhD in theology from the University of Dayton and MDiv from Truett Seminary. Her work is at the intersection of religion, theology, and ethnography. Her first book, Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical...
Sep 1, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Politics, Racism, Randall Balmer, Righting America, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger In a blistering August 23 LA Times op-ed historian Randall Balmer makes the case that contemporary American evangelicalism is an ethical disaster. One example is the fact that in the 2016 election 81% of white evangelicals voted for a man who...
Mar 31, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Culture War, Evangelicals, Evolution, Gay Marriage, intolerance, Ken Ham, Politics, Treavor Bogard, White Evangelicals |
by Treavor Bogard In today’s post, our colleague Treavor Bogard continues his discussion of Answers in Genesis (AiG), exploring the possibilities and potential significance of the Ark under a different director than Ken Ham. Darkness v. light. Death v. life....
Mar 24, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, Persecution, Politics, Righting America, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger In trying to understand why a strong minority of Americans voted for Donald Trump as president, much attention has been paid to the economic and cultural disaffection of blue-collar and rural whites. Less effort has been made in trying to explain...
Mar 17, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, Persecution, Politics, Righting America, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger White evangelical Christians endure more discrimination in America than do Muslims. Who says so? White evangelical Christians. According to a new Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) poll, 57% of white evangelical Protestants believe that...
