Tag: Evangelical

This article is not meant to lend any legitimacy to the Ku Klux Klan. Few organizations are as universally recognized and abhorred. Known colloquially as ‘the Klan’ or ‘the KKK’, the original cell was formed in Tennessee around 1865 as a response to the American Civ...

The book was a prosecution for fraud. On point after point, Canfield’s biography of a Christian hero read like a legal indictment. Scofield had been accused of bribery and theft when holding public positions. He’d lied about being in the Confederate Army. There was suggestion he&rsquo...

I think back on the many Evangelical stars who’ve come from DTS—from Charles Swindoll to Charles Ryrie, from J. Dwight Pentecost to Hal Lindsey, or J. Vernon McGee. They’d attended a white supremacist school and said nothing about it. In 1973, Dallas Theological Seminary...

I consider myself an Evangelical Christian in theology for the most part. But, the new trend among Evangelical Christians in which patriotism and an America-first attitude outweigh Jesus’ teachings, is not something I can accept. It seems to me this Patriotic Gospel is gaining more momentum...

Prior worked the last two decades at very conservative schools. She was long at Liberty University, then shifted to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She was an unexpected figure, a sort of paradox in America’s largest religion. Weirdly colorful. Intellectual. A bit eccentric. S...

Early on, he set about trying to teach the Bible to a community he knew: young skateboarders. He went to an Evangelical seminary, and became a pastor. But then he made the unusual decision to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he got a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies....

I joined the SaveOne anti-abortion support group first. Really, I was a liar from the beginning. I’ve never had an abortion, at least not that I remember. At the time, I said I remembered becoming pregnant in high school after my father raped me, and that much is true. What I don’t re...

She was long at Liberty University, then shifted to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She was an unexpected figure, a sort of paradox in America’s largest religion. Weirdly colorful. Intellectual. A bit eccentric. She was the Evangelical Auntie Mame, given to strange declarations. ...