fundamentalism
In new Bob Jones University podcast, former students and faculty blast ‘insular’ culture
By Kathryn Post — September 12, 2023
(RNS) — 'Surviving Bob Jones University: A Christian Cult' aims to show how alleged patterns of conformity, isolation, information control and surveillance impacted members of the Bob Jones ecosystem.
What ‘The Starling Girl’ gets right about church abuse and fundamentalism
By Kathryn Post — May 5, 2023
(RNS) — ‘When abuse is framed as just black and white, it can be harder for people going through it to reckon with it and realize it,’ said writer/director Laurel Parmet.
What stabbed Salman Rushdie?
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 16, 2022
(RNS) — This was not only an attack on an author. It was an attack on culture and civilization itself.
Fundie Fridays, the snarky critic of conservative religious zeal, faces YouTube termination
By Riley Farrell — June 30, 2022
(RNS) — By poking fun at fundamentalists, Jennifer Sutphin and James Bryant stand as symmetrically antithetical to Christian content creators. Thousands of followers worship them for it.
Christians hold many views on Jesus’ resurrection – a theologian explains the differing views among Baptists
By Jason Oliver Evans — April 15, 2022
(The Conversation) — Christians have engaged in passionate debates over the meaning of the resurrection. Baptists may be distinct in that they believe an external religious authority cannot enforce views on such matters.
The fundamentalist who created today’s conservative template
By Mark Silk — August 23, 2021
(RNS) — Meet a New Jersey pastor named Carl McIntire.
Afghan government collapses, Taliban seize control: 5 essential reads
By Catesby Holmes — August 16, 2021
(The Conversation) — The Taliban ‘expect a complete handover of power.’ Experts explain who the Taliban are, what life is like under their rule and how the US may bear responsibility for Afghanistan’s collapse.
When redemption fails
By Mark Silk — August 11, 2021
(RNS) — Americans are in thrall to fulfillment, and prophecy is king.
What is biblical inerrancy? A New Testament scholar explains
By Geoffrey Smith — July 20, 2021
(The Conversation) — The doctrine of inerrancy likely took shape during the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States, in response to the rise of liberalism within Christianity.
At 71, Christian author Philip Yancey still believes in amazing grace, despite the country’s divisions
By Bob Smietana — June 24, 2021
(RNS) — In a world filled with angry divides, Yancey is still focusing on grace and forgiveness and showing the world a better way to live.
The rise of fundamentalist Catholicism
By Mark Silk — November 19, 2019
(RNS) — The recent Amazon synod has exposed just how far conservative Catholicism has been reshaped in the image of American evangelicalism.
The rise of fundamentalist Catholicism
By Mark Silk — November 12, 2019
(RNS) — The recent Amazon synod has exposed just how far conservative Catholicism has been reshaped in the image of American evangelicalism.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ re-spins Genesis. And that’s scary
By Jeffrey Salkin — May 4, 2017
(RNS) 'The Handmaid's Tale' is terrifying. It is also scandalously biblical.
Not wishy-washy
By Martin E. Marty — March 29, 2017
Well-intentioned, tolerant folks are properly repelled if not threatened by the murderous language that frequently finds its way into expressions of religious faith, life, and culture. Some of them believe that if they only half-believe or half-express elements of their own faith and tradition, they will help bring about a new peaceable kingdom.
Pope Francis condemns ‘homicidal madness’ of ‘fundamentalist’ terrorism
By Josephine McKenna — January 9, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The pontiff told diplomats that religion was being used as a pretext for the 'rejection, marginalization and violence' that had inspired brutal attacks in the past year.
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