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Preaching lessons at a fundamentalist Bible school

Dec 08, 2012 by Carol Howard Merritt

There is a particular authority that comes from privilege. When a white man steps into the place where he belongs, he has an internal power with which he was born. He is entitled. Like royalty, he sits on the throne naturally, because that place is caught in his blood. But an entirely different power emerges from women who have been told that they are not allowed to speak in church—and suddenly rise behind the pulpit. Something flares up from deep inside of them, and when they have a safe space, the words can come out of them with force and fury.

The liberal fundamentalist

Aug 29, 2012 by David Heim

One hundred years ago this summer, a fundamentalist Christian stood before the convention of a major political party and offered an impromptu resolution. He ended his impassioned speech by quoting words of Jesus. The speech was not what you might expect.

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Luther as skeptic

Nov 17, 1999 by Mark U. Edwards Jr.

Martin Luther: The Christian Between God and Death, by Richard Marius

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The Battle for God, by Karen Armstrong

Sep 27, 2000 by Bruce B. Lawrence

The God of Abraham is the God of vengeance and wrath who will consume the world because it has neglected him. The world has become modern and secular, material and political, pluralist and multicultural. It has forsaken the old ways. It is doomed to perdition. So believe the fundamentalists about whom Karen Armstrong writes.

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Killer ‘saints’

Oct 18, 2003 reviewed by Daniel Born

The history of the American heartland sometimes appears as little more than a bloody farrago of killing which, in the God-soaked vocabulary of the perpetrators, must be understood not as murder, but as something inevitable and even holy. This tradition persists long after the Native American resistance to European settlers was put down by settlers and soldiers certain of providential favor.

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Tracking God

Karen Armstrong's religious vision

Jun 29, 2010 by Amy Frykholm

When A History of God hit the New York Times bestseller list, Karen Armstrong suddenly became the go-to commentator on religion. Bill Moyers calls her “one of the foremost, and most original, thinkers on religion in our modern world.” Why is she so widely read? The answer is not immediately clear. Her prose is often maddeningly dense and her points elusive. Her drive to comprehend religion leads her to be constantly comparing elements of different religious traditions, but the connections she draws are not always illuminating.

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Ex-fundamentalist

Jul 28, 2009 reviewed by Randall Balmer

In the late 1980s, while I was writing Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, someone named Richard Yao was all the rage.

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Waiting for the Apocalypse/Dating Jesus

Jul 14, 2009 reviewed by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

A fundamentalist childhood has become a hot commodity on the literary market. Memoirs like Born Again and Again, by Jon M.

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

May 20, 2008 reviewed by Trudy Bush

An ambitious young man leaves the provinces, hoping to make his fortune in the city. He first is infatuated with the glittering world he finds there, then gradually becomes disillusioned by the anxiety and corruption beneath the bright surface. What moral choices will the young man make? What will he become if he remains in the city?

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