Welcome to our blog, and to what three collaborating professors hope will be a stimulating expansion of our campuses this fall.
There is no question that questions of faith, religion, and morality are deeply intertwined with questions of our collective identity and direction in the United States of America. Although some voices have limited the "moral issues" of American politics to questions of abortion and same-sex marriage, that area is rapidly expanding to include such areas as war, immigration, health care, affordable housing, care for creation, fighting racism, sexism, and poverty. The major parties are battling over the Catholic vote, the Evangelical vote, and likely other faith-based demographics as well.
This semester, in the midst of our study of religion or theology and politics, we will have a chance to explore together the intersection of faith and politics in this election. Some of us likely already know for whom we will vote. Others perhaps are unsure or are even contemplating not voting. Regardless, we hope that this blog will give us all an opportunity to come into contact with people and with points of view that we would not necessarily contact on our own campus.
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"Evangelical" as used today in America is a cowardly euphemism. The fundamentalists are defined by the obscurantism of "The Fundamentals," published around 1912 as a reaction to what they called "modernism." Their posture rejects the potential of knowledge to advance, and they are worshipers not of deity but of a book.
The real Evangelicals, whose name the fundies hijacked, were reformers in the Church of England, Methodists and Quakers, who did superb work such as securing the abolition of slavery led by Wilberforce. The attempt of modern fundies to steal the name "evangelical" is contemptible and dishonest.
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