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Daily Journal
March 14, 2018
Among state activists in support of the two bills were conservative political advocacy group Advance America, the American Family Association, a non-profit that promotes fundamentalist Christian values, and the non-profit lobbying group Indiana Family Institute. Ryan McCann, Director of Operations andÃâà...
Christian Post
March 13, 2018
"Living Biblically," the new CBS show that premiered at the end of February, poses the danger of characterizing Christians as literal fundamentalists who could stone their own children, a biblical scholar has warned. "Good luck if you really want to try to live the Old Testament completely literally," biblicalÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
March 13, 2018
A primary goal of the fundamentalist movement of the 1920s was to find a way to save higher education from the slippery slopes that had -- according to the fundamentalists -- destroyed evangelical schools in the late 1800s. Since the 1920s, conservative evangelical intellectuals and college administratorsÃâà...
The Conversation CA
March 12, 2018
In response, Christian fundamentalists had proposed a new, “scientific” version of Biblical creation that could be taught alongside evolution, as an alternative. Legal challenges to this new “creation science” were making their way through the courts across many Southern states while McCarthy was writingÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 12, 2018
While the religious right led by figures like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson had a distinctively fundamentalist bent to it, many evangelicals felt—and feel—alienated by that flavor of Christianity. “The evangelicalism that attracted so many of us in the 1960s and '70s presented itself as an alternative toÃâà...
In Touch Weekly
March 10, 2018
You may remember Sierra Jo Dominguez as Jill Duggar and Jessa Duggar's wedding planner on 19 Kids and Counting, but she's also a devoted fundamentalist Christian and a loving mom, too! She actually has a surprising amount in common with Michelle Duggar, and is on track to have as many kids asÃâà...
CBC.ca
March 10, 2018
She married him when she was 18. They have seven children together, and 46 grandchildren. She was also Bountiful's midwife. Oler is her half-brother. Judge tosses B.C. polygamists' constitutional challenge. She left the fundamentalist Christian polygamist community in 2003 and fled to Cranbrook, B.C.,Ãâà...
Pacific Standard
March 10, 2018
Do genes make people gay? If you put this question to Google, you'll find thousands of pages of Internet commentary on it, posted on the websites of fundamentalist Christian ministries, science blogs, and major newspapers. The reason why this question attracts so much attention is no mystery: DespiteÃâà...
Dallas News
March 10, 2018
I'm reminded of the worst sorts of fundamentalist Christian sects, the kind that claim to take the Bible literally yet live as if mercy is alien to Scripture -- and that commands to "love your enemies" or "bless those who persecute you" somehow fell off the page. In the church of intersectionality, grace is nowhereÃâà...
Truth-Out
March 10, 2018
"The people who belong to this movement go by different names -- Reconstructionists, Theonomists, Dominionists -- but they all share a common belief: Our republican form of government should be replaced with a Christian fundamentalist theocracy," Boston explained. "They may disagree on whatÃâà...
West Orange Times & Windermere Observer
March 9, 2018
“I was looking for Christian fellowship and some knowledge about the Bible.” “They said, 'When you get off to college, be sure to find yourself a fellowship and keep reading the Bible and stay out of trouble.'” She found a fellowship on campus that met on Fridays — and that's when she met two people whoÃâà...
Colorado Springs Independent
March 7, 2018
One Academy staffer called Gould's choice of the tie as an "in-your-face" proclamation of Christian faith by a person who, presumably, will be expected to solicit ... But Weinstein, the bane of the Academy for more than a decade due to its perceived favoritism of fundamentalist Christianity, had plenty to say.
ChristianToday
March 7, 2018
Some people are more open to the gospel, but others are radicalising. 'This is a crossroads. If it works, it will bring huge change and more freedom to this country. If it fails, Saudi might be the next Yemen – only worse. If the fundamentalists win the battle that is now being fought behind the curtains and sparkÃâà...
Green Left Weekly
March 7, 2018
It remained the largest party in parliament, but had to rely on the votes of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party —hard-right Loyalists and Christian fundamentalists — to secure a shaky and uncertain Commons majority. The result was also a substantial blow to the centrist Liberal Democrats, reducedÃâà...
Free Times
March 7, 2018
19) My position is not “secular”; it is based on a lifetime quest to respond to the saving love of Christ by following the teachings of Jesus and the witness of the whole of Scripture and Christian tradition. The legislators ... Neither the church nor state needs a fundamentalist Christian sharia in South Carolina!
Christian Post
March 7, 2018
Cracks in fundamentalist solidarity appeared as early as 1941-42, when the ACCC and the NAE took conflicting positions on the practice of ecclesiastical separation. Neoevangelicalism congealed as a party in 1947 with the founding of Fuller Seminary, the launching of Christianity Today, and the organization of theÃâà...
Outlook India
March 6, 2018
There are some countries that also promote fundamentalist Christian groups. I don't think it is something we ... There are very small groups of Christian fundamentalists. But they are not only a threat to Buddhists; they are also a danger to Hindus, moderate Christians and Catholics as well. Will there be moreÃâà...
The Badger Herald
March 6, 2018
During the 1982 campaign, fundamentalist Christian radio stations compiled a last-ditch effort to garner support for an eventual veto of the bill through a caustic radio ad campaign. Heroically, Madison's LGBTQ+ community countered with an equally fierce radio campaign on progressive station WORTÃâà...
The Christian Century
March 6, 2018
Our “fantasy-industrial complex” might be too deeply ingrained to be uprooted, reinforced by the Internet, television, film, advertising, theme parks, themed conventions, and especially—as he sees it—Christianity. Although Andersen directs his tirades primarily against Christian fundamentalists who want toÃâà...
IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters
March 6, 2018
Now the Islamic fundamentalists want to overturn Christian/Western dominance. If they read this book they will realize they are probably on a hopeless quest. Nevertheless, to be honest, the Koran is – at least partly – on their side. [IDN-InDepthNews – 06 March 2018]. *Note: For 17 years Jonathan PowerÃâà...
WUNC
March 5, 2018
He began his career as a fundamentalist Christian who believed the Bible was the inerrant word of God. His hunger to learn everything he could about the world's most popular holy book led him to several academic institutions and a vast amount of knowledge that caused him to question, and eventuallyÃâà...
Pantheism News
March 3, 2018
Recent comments made by Christian conservatives appear to blame non-believers for everything from school shootings to the downfall of civilization. As younger Americans increasingly identify as “post-Christian”, the Far Right is ratcheting up their attacks on those they consider godless and immoral.
Scottish Catholic Observer
February 15, 2018
A 'new secular religion with a fundamentalist doctrine' is denying 'Christians a voice in the public square,' the director of the Catholic Parliamentary Office has said. Anthony Horan was exploring the question 'Politics, a Place for Catholics?' as part of the Faith Forum talks at Glasgow University's TurnbullÃâà...
The Conversation UK
February 12, 2018
The idea that to be gay is to be sick and in need of a cure might seem archaic and bizarre by mainstream standards, but among a few fundamentalist Christian groups, it lives on today. Recently, one such group, the Core Issues Trust, booked a cinema in London's West End for a film screening event whichÃâà...
SaharaReporters.com
February 6, 2018
The resistance to any form of resolution of the farmers-herdsmen crisis in the Middle Belt in recent months by the Christian fundamentalist and the brutal killing of farmers perpetuated by Muslim fundamentalist represented by killer herdsmen is a disquieting reality that pseudo-religious fundamentalists haveÃâà...
