Historical Perspective: Come Out or Stay Put?
In the 1940s and 50s, during the late stages of the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy, Fundamentalists divided into two roughly defined camps: (more…)
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April 5, 2008
Evangelicalism According To Alexandra Pelosi
In 2007 Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, released a documentary entitled Friends of God. She, and a television crew from HBO, toured American evangelical hotspots, mostly in the South and Inter-Mountain West including Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Texas, Ted Haggard’s New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and Lynchburg, Virginia, home to Jerry Falwell and Liberty University.
Pelosi presents an Evangelicalism that is pervasive, politically engaged, passionately partisan, single (or simple) minded, and kinda tacky. (more…)
