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fundamentalism
Fundamentalism is new
Karen Armstrong says pretty much the same, but here it is from a guy who went to Harvard to study fundamentalism. Brett Grainger sees fundamentalism as an entirely modern phenomenon, one that was born as a reaction against the modern world, but that has also been shaped by it. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, fundamentalists are […]
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fundamentalism, left behind, rapture, re
Left Behind: The RE curriculum
01.14.08 | Permalink | 6 CommentsIf you recovering fundamentalists thought Rapture panic was bad when you were a kid, it’s even worse now: This RE curriculum stages a fake Rapture to strike the fear of God into parents and kids alike.
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fundamentalism, fundamentalists, recovering-fundamentalists
Recovering Facebook Fundamentalists
12.31.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Recovering Facebook FundamentalistsNew group here.
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fundamentalism, grandparents, unitarians
Like a damn Unitarian
07.21.06 | Permalink | 7 CommentsAfter that time, when I was twelve-years-old, when grandma made me put that “this car stops at all garage sales” bumper sticker on the second-hand Cadillac, I was ashamed of grandma and grandpa. They smoked and cussed and drank. They yelled at each other. They kept weird friends who’d come over to play gin rummy […]
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essay, fundamentalism
New recovery essay: By the rivers of Babylon
03.08.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on New recovery essay: By the rivers of BabylonThe third essay in Healing Hagar’s recovering from fundamentalism series is up and at ’em. Feel free to leave comments over here. (Working on adding comment functionality to essay pages for Healing Hagar.) I want to give a special thanks to Missing the Flock, whose Salon.com letter gave me the umph I needed to get […]
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fundamentalism, hagar, recovering-fundamentalist, recovery
New recovering fundy essay—Weeping for Ishmael
The first full essay in the Healing Hagar recovery series is now complete. Please check out “Ground zero: Weeping for Ishmael.” (I can’t do comments on essay pages, so please leave any comments here.) I’m planning to release a new essay about every two weeks.
