Progressive Christian blogger (bleh, I get a bad taste in my mouth putting those two words together, kind of like pro-choice Christian or pro-war Christian) Benjamin Corey has written a post arguing that Evangelicalism is the new Fundamentalism. I suppose in a sense, that’s true in...
Nothing stirs up fundamentalist hornets’ nests like the positive thinking ‘Christianity-lite’ of Joel and Victoria Osteen. This past week, she outdid herself with the video below, saying: “When we obey God, we’re not doing it for God. I mean, that’s one way to look at...
One of the problems with the descriptors “fundamentalist” and “neofundamentalism” is that they carry different meanings among different groups. This causes confusion when such things are discussed. Below, I propose three different definitions of neo-fundamenalism, depending on who’s asking.
Yesterday I had lunch with NeoFundamentalist, who is actually a pastor here in my area. We talked about the history of fundamentalism and evangelicalism, modernism, and the mistakes made in each camp. Discussion also turned to how to fix these doctrinal and practical mistakes, and...
I’m sure I’m sounding like a broken record, but as long as I get significant feedback and engagement on this issue, I will address it, because I believe that neo-fundamentalists, while carrying the excellent traditions of their forefathers, are also carrying over their errors, and...
This is the second of two posts – here’s Part I if you missed it. I agree with jmb when he says in Ennui in the Evangelical Blogosphere that the following things bug him (and me), which is why I am adding this two part...
Since I recently laid into Slice of Laodicea for being uncareful about condemning rock music out of hand, I found a couple of excellent critiques of “watchblog” sites, and their limits and foibles (Jim of SOL, this is for you, since SOL instigated the following...
In What I Like About Rick Warren, New City Press has really done a nice job of reconsidering the overly negative, critical approach that many reformed and fundamentalist sites take to Rick Warren, author of the heinously successful Purpose Driven Life. Of course, I entered...
