<p>Just as an fyi, Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism are often lumped together, but they aren’t always. There are evangelicals who are fundamentalists, whose faith is based in the idea that scripture is the literal word of God, that for example if the Bible says the earth was created in 6 days and the Bible literally is history, so the earth is 6000 years ago, it is belief the words themselves are all true, as God intended, there is no interpretation, it is what it is (which raises questions, because though that is the claim, they will ignore something like leviticus saying you shouldn’t wear clothing of multiple materials as “Jewish cultural Law”…). Evangelicals are not necessarily fundamentalist, evangelical Christians mean that they feel they are driven by the Holy Spirit, have been “born again”, and also feel the need to Evangelize, tell others about the Good News of Christ and so forth. They don’t necessarily see scripture as the literal word of God in the sense of the literal words written there, they may believe the earth is billions of years old, and so forth, and also through individual discernment come to understand what they think God is through their reading and prayer… </p>
<p>One of the reasons they have been put together is with the religious right coalition that has been the mainstay of the GOP for the past 35 years or so, is that many of these folks are both evangelical and fundamentalist, and this has come to be called 'Evangelical Christianity", when it isn’t the whole picture, nor even a majority of it. I think people’s bias against fundamentalism and evangelicals is because of the religious right, what they see is Kansas banning the teaching of evolution, Creationism/Young earth being taught as scientific theory, or things like bombing abortion clinics or killing abortion doctors, they see the extreme that unfortunately has become the public face of “Evangelicals”, which quite frankly is allowing the extremists to represent the whole (not to mention the battles over gay rights and gay marriage and what ‘evangelical’ religious leaders say in public). Put it this way, a lot of evangelicals believe in science and have no problems with evolution,that is mostly fundamentalist Christians, and they tend to make the biggest noise IMO. </p>
<p>In terms of college, there are some spiritual/religious groups on campuses that have raised eyebrows. When I was in school, there was a pretty aggressive Buddhist group that at the time and even now 30 years later I felt was preying on kids who were lonely and homesick, and there are other groups that show a friendly face, but behind them there is something darker. I am not naming groups, and some of these groups hide behind the mask of Evangelical Christianity, but there are a lot of other groups, too.</p>
<p>@ tom1944</p>
<p>Your D may want to find a so called “High Episcopal Church”, it might be common ground for your D and your H. Episcopal churches are usually pretty liberal (I belonged to one for several years that was really out there…), but there are also churches, even in the most liberal of Diocese, that are very conservative). The presiding Bishop of ECUSA is a woman, and they are pretty liberal with LGBT issues and so forth. The reason I said high episcopal is because their worship services are very, very similar to Catholicism, if that is what her H grew up as, so he might feel comfortable. They do communion every week, and many of the rituals are close to the Catholic.</p>