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Life After Fundamentalism: Carl Ruby, Pierre Damas Bel, and Haitians in Springfield

by William Trollinger  Image of Pierre Damas Bel via CNN. On June 25 of this year the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could end Temporary Protected Status for citizens of Haiti, thus allowing the government to deport them despite the reality that...

Life After Fundamentalism: Carl Ruby, Cedarville University, and Haitians in Springfield

by William Trollinger Members of the Haitian community, from left, Lindsey Aime, James Fleurijean, Rose-Thamar Joseph, Harold Herard, and Viles Dorsainvil, stand for worship with Carl Ruby, pastor at Central Christian Church, in Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday, Sept. 15,...

Life After Fundamentalism

by William Trollinger Evangelical colleges are always having to prove – to parents, donors, and evangelical leaders such as James Dobson or Ken Ham – that they are, to quote Adam Laats, “guardians and teachers of a necessarily vague dream of eternal and unchanging...