Word: fundamentalists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eyes over the Zohar's original Aramaic can ensure good luck, and they chat blithely about which of its 24 volumes they carried around that day, despite being unable to read a word. Sandra Bernhard, who introduced Roseanne to the center, argues that there is integrity to Berg's fundamentalist entrepreneurialism. "The basic principle is that you're here for a deeper reason than meets the eye," she says. "You're here to get past desire for oneself alone, to eradicate pain and suffering. I think everybody's trying to achieve that." She adds that she was raised Conservative...
DIED. BOB JONES JR., 86, unreconstructed chancellor of the Christian Fundamentalist Bob Jones University; in Greenville, S.C. Jones reportedly once compared Pope John Paul II to the devil...
...this dangerous movement. NOW should be commended for doing its duty and raising the alarm about a well-financed national organization of angry white males who promise they will get into line as long as women agree to submit to them. Promise Keeper members are not Boy Scouts but Fundamentalist wolves in sheep's clothing. LEE COKORINOS, Editor Promise Keepers Watch Center for Democracy Studies New York City...
...between gays and lesbians and their allies on one side, and fundamentalist Christians on the other, has caused a lot of casualties. Activists with noble intentions have had our compassion and openness tested by this struggle. But the recent panel discussion sponsored by Harvard Law School's Society for Law, Life and Religion made me take stock of some of my basic opinions--while politically and morally I still believe gays and lesbians are right, in our immediate judgments we may have been wrong...
Rauschenberg was a Texas boy, two parts Anglo, one part German, one part Cherokee. He was born in 1925 in one of the most art-free zones of America, Port Arthur, a bayou oil-refinery town on the Gulf of Mexico. His parents were Fundamentalist Christians, and as a teenager he thought of becoming a preacher. Luckily for American art, and perhaps for the ministry too, he ditched the notion on realizing that the Church of Christ forbade dancing. He did a stint in the Navy, as a male psychiatric nurse--which confirmed him as a lifelong pacifist. He dabbled...