Forget about the Berlin Airlift. Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell is planning a Canadian airlift. You can’t make this stuff up. Here is Zachary Petrizzo of The Daily Beast: After his initial Tuesday shipment of MyPillow products was denied entry into Canada, Mike Lindell now...
Carl McIntire
So are they aliens or not?
The Pentagon released its report on UFO‘s “unidentified aerial phenomena” yesterday. Summary: They have no idea. Here is Julian Barnes at The New York Times: Government officials on Friday were reluctant to acknowledge the potential that the phenomena could be...
The last fundamentalist empire died yesterday in Lynchburg, Virginia
Male authoritarian figures presiding over regional empires were an important part of 20th-century Protestant fundamentalism. I began to think historically about these empires during divinity school when I first read William Trollinger’s book God’s Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern...
The American Council of Christian Churches Still Exists
When post-fundamentalists like Billy Graham, Carl. F.H. Henry, and Harold John Ockenga began to forge a kinder and gentler brand of conservative Protestantism known as “neo-evangelicalism,” there were many veterans of the fundamentalist-modernist battles of the 1920s who continued to...
Why the Recent *Politico” Piece Will Not Hurt Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Standing Among Many Conservative Evangelicals
Yesterday I posted about Brandon Ambrosino’s Politico piece exposing Jerry Falwell’s lies, shady business deals, sex life, and the tyrannical power he holds over his employees at Liberty University. One of Falwell’s employees called the president a dictator who propagates a culture...
Pence’s Space Theology
Marina Koren has a really interesting piece at The Atlantic on Mike Pence’s use of religious language in describing space exploration. Here is a taste: And when Pence speaks of space exploration, he speaks not only of the frontier, but of...
On Misspelling George Whitefield’s Name
Twenty-five years ago I was writing an M.A. thesis on separatist fundamentalism in twentieth-century America. One of the key figures in my research was a mid-century fundamentalist named Carl McIntire. (I actually published an article about him in 1994). As...
The Papers of David Hedegard
In another manifestation of my scholarly life I did a lot of work on American fundamentalism. My master’s thesis, which I spun into a couple of articles, focused on the separatist fundamentalism of mid-20th century figures such as Carl McIntire,...