Author: Jerry Gill

  • Fundamentalism or Evangelicalism?

    Both of these “movements” or branches of Christian belief are rather modern and both distinguish themselves from mainstream Christianity. There has been a plethora of adds from the Fundamentalist point of view on mainstream media lately so I shall begin with it. The Fundamentalist movement began around the turn of the 20th century as an…

  • The Invention of Basketball

    In 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts at a YMCA school a young physical education teacher named James Naismith found himself frustrated during the winter months because there was no game to play with his students indoors. He spent a lot of time speculating about how to overcome this deficiency but all he could come up with…