Jan 28, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American History, Anticommunism, Arkansas, Black Reconstruction, Capitol Riot, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Cold War, College of the Ozarks, Communism, Confederacy, Confederate Statues, Constitution, Constitutional Convention, David Blight, Declaration of Independence, Donald Trump, Fascism, Franklin Roosevelt, Higher Education, Hillsdale College, History, History and Politics, Insurrection, Jerry Davis, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Mussolini, New Deal, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Revisionism, Slavery, Socialism, Strom Thurmond, Teddy Roosevelt, Tom Cotton, Uncategorized, W.E.B. DuBois, White Nationalism, White Supremacy, Woodrow Wilson, World War II |
by William Trollinger An escaped slave named Peter showing his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. Library of Congress. Martin Luther King’s February 12 1965 speech in Selma, Alabama. Horace Cort/AP. The 1619 Project – the...
Jan 11, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, 1861, American Exceptionalism, American History, Black Lives Matter, Capitol Riot, College of the Ozarks, Confederacy, Conservative Evangelicals, Daniel Immerwahr, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Insurrection, Jerry Davis, Joe Biden, Nicholas Kristof, Politics, Racism, Raymond Screws, Ronald Reagan, Slavery, The New York Times, Washington Post, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by Raymond D. Screws Raymond D. Screws earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 2003. He also has an MA from Pittsburg State University and a B.A. from School (now College) of the Ozarks, where his advisor was William Trollinger. Throughout his...
Dec 7, 2020 | Cedarville University, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Immigration, Madison Cawthorn, Politics, Sarah Jones, Sexual Violence, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Evangelical leaders pray over Trump in the Oval Office. Photo via The Chicago Tribune (2017). “What does it profit a faith to gain a whole country and then lose it, along with its own soul?” (Sarah Jones) Four years ago, just after the...
Nov 20, 2020 | Abraham Lincoln, Conservative Evangelicals, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Lincoln Memorial, Politics, Rachael Griggs, Slavery, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by Rachael Griggs Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, engraved at the Lincoln Memorial. Photo: the U.S. National Parks Service Rachael Griggs is a science advocate and a Jesus advocate. Her awe of nature and appreciation for the sciences began with her first...
Nov 12, 2020 | A Secular World, Charles Taylor, Christian Nationalism, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelicals, Evolution, Fear, Imagined Communities, John Fea, Paula White, Religious Imagination, Rodney Kennedy, Secularism, Secularization, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by Rodney Kennedy 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 over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Sep 25, 2020 | American History, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, God in a Nutshell, History, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Politics, QAnon, Racism, Slavery, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trey Smith, Vaccination, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Trey Smith’s The Coming Storm: A Donald J. Trump Documentary. Image via Youtube “Many, many soldiers . . . died for the freedom of many people of other shades and colors, some of whom were sold out by their own kinsmen and...
