My House Shall be a House of Prayer

By Gene Ogorodov

As much as it may surprise many of our readers, I have friends who live in the US South. This morning one of them shared a news flash about a Southern Baptist Church that resides in her town. This church has been constructing a gaudy monstrosity to house a new gymnasium for the past several months. The inclement weather that has characterized this January and February in the South has forced the contractors to get behind schedule. In response to the delay the Baptist Church has been paying the workmen to work overtime during the evenings and weekends. Saturday and Sunday have now become part of the workweek.

Frank Schaeffer and Eric Elnes Discussing Convergent Christianity

Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial. (Nova)

Some Thoughts on Evangelicalism

By Gene Ogorodov

Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism are hardly monolithic blocs. In conversing with passionate Fundamentalists or Evangelicals the first thing that they will convey is that they are "born again"; the second is that they are not "that" type of Evangelical and/or Fundamentalist. 

These are two terms that are poorly defined and amorphous in usage. Both a badges of honor and marks of shame, these terms are thrown about in American religious circles with little care for consistency. In a practical sense these terms mean little more than "us" and "them."

Jeff Sharlet "C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy." (EI Speaker Series)

Randall Balmer "True Origins of the Religious Right."