Understanding the meaning of “born again” does not take a Bible scholar. All you need is John 3:1-21 — the tutorial between Nicodemus and Jesus, where the circumstances enhance one of the ...

Being called a “born-again Christian” can mean many things to many people. For some, it means you are a Bible-thumping fundamentalist or a political conservative.

While the term “born again” comes from the Bible, the idea of new birth came to prominence during the colonial revivals of the 1730s and 1740s. Ministers like Jonathan Edwards, ...

They’d probably tell you “I’m a Bible-believing Christian,” or “I’m a born-again follower of Jesus,” or “I attend a Southern Baptist church. ...

Robertson strongly believed in the importance of Christian devotion—he read the Bible for an hour every day and spent lots of time in prayer. But church attendance, in his view, was optional.

How Christian Fundamentalism Was Born Again Nearly a century ago, a single trial seemed to shatter the movement’s place in America. It’s returned in a new form—but for old reasons.

The born-again Christian and son of the founders said it was “just something I want to do,” company spokesman Carl Van Fleet told USA Today in 2005. “It was my uncle Rich who put the Bible ...

Now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee reportedly can add “born-again Christian” to that list, too, according to one of the members of Trump’s new evangelical advisory board.