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This paper examines gender in two forms of mediated contemporary Protestant evangelicalism in the United States: a male-dominated punk network, called Misfits United, and a women's group studying Beth Moore's Bible study, It's Tough Being a Woman (ITBAW). While the appearance and performance styles of these two groups are drastically different, both support gender hierarchies in similar ways. Misfits United and Moore's ITBAW present the gender of their Christian God as flexible, even transformative, and in effect open up discursive space to conceptualize gender on non-traditional grounds. Paradoxically, however, both reinforce traditional gender roles by emphasizing what distinguishes God from His creation: the gendered constraints of human biology. Keywords: Evangelical, gender, Christian rock, women's ministries, Introduction In the United States, conservative Protestant evangelicals (2) thrive in the religious marketplace, in part, because they integrate popular culture into their religious traditions (Finke and Iannaccone 1993; Lee [...]

Although the Bill and Gloria Gaither Homecoming Friends concert and video series is a ubiquitous presence in Christian entertainment, its cultural function and i nfluence are not well understood. This [...]

The Reverend Andrew McGowan principal of the Highland Theological College explains the meaning to the term 'evangelical', which means belief in Christian faith and not fundamentalism.

The article answers to the queries why are evangelicals reengaging with marian doctrine and why should such engagement matter in this process of marian doctrine.

'Big Religion: The Cultural Origins of the American Megachurch' narrates the complex historical genealogy of the 'megachurch,' the ubiquitous congregational model that now dominates the practice of contemporary evangelical Protestantism. [...]

Evangelical's cultural politics is to untangle the Islamic identity in Kyrgyzstan. Their aim is to abandon Islam and promote Christianity.

THE SOURCE: 'Evangelicals and Mary' by Tim Perry, in Theology Today, July 2008. STARTING WITH THEIR OPPOSITION to abortion access, Catholics and evangelical Christians have a lot in common politically. [...]

Recently a group of conservative evangelical theologians put together a self-consciously 'evangelical' summary of the Christian faith--a confessional document that aims to provide a point of unity for evangelicals. The [...]

'Jimmy Carter: The Re-emergence of Faith-Based Politics and the Abortion Rights Issue' by Andrew R. Flint and Joy Porter, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (March 2005), Dept. of Political Science, Texas [...]

Although far from the monolith uniformed opinion often takes it to be, evangelicalism represents a distinct and important perspective on the controverted questions of biblical authority and interpretation; and its voice needs to be heard in the on-going hermeneutical task.

A Lutheran pastor writes me that he has been wrestling again with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, that most worthy theologian who was martyred during the last days of the Nazi horror. Pondering [...]