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Who Wins the Battle 0ver Women’s Ordination?

Jul 20, 2023 | Antoinette Brown, Benjamin Knoll, Cammie Jo Bolin, Feminism, Feminization of the Church, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Good and Mad, intolerance, Mainline Protestant Churchwomen, Male Supremacy, Margaret Bendroth, Nelle Morton, Southern Baptist Convention, United Church of Christ, Women and Religion, Women's Ordination, Women's Rights | 1 comment

by Peggy Bendroth Peggy Bendroth served over 15 years as executive director of the Congregational Library and Archives in Boston. She has written and edited eight books on American religion, including Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present (Yale 1993); Women...

“Shall the Evangelicals Win?”: A 2022 Update of Harry Fosdick’s 1922 Sermon, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”

Jul 3, 2022 | Abortion, Adam and Eve, Atonement, Catholicism, Christian Nationalism, Church and State, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Constitution, David Barton, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Evolution, Feminism, First Amendment, Fourth of July, Fundamentalism, Gun Control, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Inerrancy, intolerance, J. Frank Norris, January 6, 2021, Kenneth R. Miller, Lauren Boebert, LGBTQ+ Rights, Liberalism, Prayer, Public Schools, Rapture Ideology, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Republicans, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Roe v. Wade, School Prayer, Science, Stewardship, Supreme Court, Tolerance, Trump Supporters, Women's Rights | 0 comments

by Rodney Kennedy Book Cover for Fosdick’s Shall the Fundamentalists Win? Or, The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith. Image via Amazon. Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State...

Ken Ham Proves the Point: For Evangelicals, Every Child is a Gift, Except When They Aren’t

Jul 15, 2019 | Abortion, Adoption, Asylum Seekers, Children, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Euthanasia, Evangelicals, Gender Roles, intolerance, John Pavlovitz, Ken Ham, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, Refugees, Sex Trafficking, White Evangelicals | 0 comments

by William Trollinger 2-year-old Yanela Sanchez and her mother, Sandra Sanchez, taken into custody June 12, 2018. Photo credit: John Moore (via Getty Images) In the previous post, “Every Child is a Gift . . . Except When They Aren’t,”  Emily...

Every Child is a Gift…Except When They Aren’t

Jul 9, 2019 | Asylum Seekers, Children, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Feminism, intolerance, Quiverfull, Racial Justice, Racism, Refugees, Southern Baptist Convention, Wheaton, White Evangelicals | 0 comments

by Emily Hunter McGowin Today’s post is from Emily Hunter McGowin, who  is Associate Lecturer of Theology at Wheaton College. She is the author of Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical Theology of the Family. She holds a PhD in...