I’d taken a chance on this evangelical university because it had a Quaker connection, and I hoped the egalitarian Quaker impulse would neutralize the patriarchal and sexist aspects that thread through ...
The first is a fairly convincing one: self-identification. Carter generally referred to himself as a Baptist. Sometimes he referred to himself as a “born-again” Christian—a correlate of evangelicalism ...
(RNS) — In recent days, a few journalists have noticed that conservative religion in America is on the back foot. In a New York Times article published Friday (Sept. 13), reporters Elizabeth ...
“Today, that has totally reversed.” That divide only widened after Carter’s election that November, and it fueled a fearsome counterattack to the president’s progressive evangelicalism, even though ...