At the independent, fundamentalist Baptist church I grew up attending in the 1980s, legalism was a staple, and the ‘rules’ were seemingly endless. Skirts (or something called ‘culottes’) for women and ...

The ID channel is releasing a four-part docuseries titled Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals. The first two episodes will air on ID on Friday, November 24, 2023, at 9 p.m. However, the last two will ...

Over the past several years, Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Spokane, Washington – and the associated New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist Movement (New IFB) – has earned a reputation for having ...

In the early 1980s, sociologist James Ault set out to make a documentary about Christian fundamentalists. A self-described '60s radical, Ault had been disturbed by what happened one summer when he and ...

Brother Duncan Urbanek — a New Independent Fundamental Baptist (New IFB) preacher at the Stedfast Baptist Church in Watauga, Texas — has said that the government should criminalize homosexuality and ...

Former members of Independent Fundamental Baptist churches from across the country took to Hammond, Indiana, in protest this weekend. "There is a reckoning that needs to happen here, and it is gone on ...

David French has become my go-to pundit on questions of the interaction among religion, politics and culture. French, a columnist for the New York Times, is proving himself an able successor in my ...

Although the name might not be familiar to many viewers, the Independent Fundamental Baptists are a powerful force within American Christianity. Since its founding in the 1950s, the IFB “has evolved ...

Gathered last week in four Atlanta auditoriums linked by closed-circuit television, 40,462 ”messengers” to the annual Southern Baptist Convention clapped their hands and sang, ”Give me that old-time ...