Young Evangelicals on CNN
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Two young guns speak out on evangelicalism. Which is more disturbing - evangelical political action or the two guys decrying it? Read the story about it here.
Fundamentalists and Theater: Act Two, So What?
They say that confession is good for the soul. Well, here’s my confession.
I love the theater.
I fell in love during my junior year in high school. On a whim I tried out for a school play and somehow ended up with a lead role. That was a turning point in my life. Acting was the first thing I discovered that I could do really well.
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"'Shall the fundamentalists win?' In North America, they clearly did not. On a global scale, though, matters might develop differently."
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Christianity Today looks at Christianity and Fundamentalism in this excerpt from Philip Jenkins’ new book The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South
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Fundamentalists and Theater: Act One, Whatever Happened?
My parents came to Christ when I was about three or four years old. They responded to the witness of a home missionary who was planting a fundamental Baptist church in their small Michigan town. After they were baptized and joined that church, they brought up their children under the sound of its teaching.
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A Young Atheist’s Look at Young Fundamentalists
Book Review of Lauren Sandler’s Righteous
Neither Richard Dawkins’ God Delusionnor Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation held me with even the remotest interest, but young Lauren Sandler’s book, Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement (New York: Penguin Group, 2006), did.
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"Evangelicals do not make state visits."
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At Newsweek’s On Faith, Albert Mohler notes “Pope’s Comments on Islam Understandable and Clear”
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Obscurity: It's Not Just For Fundamentalists Anymore
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The latest Barna Survey finds “Major Christian Leaders Are Widely Unknown, Even Among Christians”
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"The last hundred years of Fundamentalist history has been marked by a complete breakdown in theology. We must acknowledge this, but without riding the pendulum all the way over to the other side."
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SBTS student Ryan DeBarr notes some agreement with the recent Emmanuel Baptist Theological Seminary Journal’s critique of Fundamentalism in “An independent Baptist call to separate from Fundamentalism”
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"...(F)undamentalism is not the old-time religion. Fundamentalism is a very modern packaging."
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American Public Media’s radio program Speaking of Faith interviews University of Chicago historian Martin Marty on the broad topic of religious Fundamentalism. An excerpt:
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