Let’s agree with a general observation: evangelicals churches tend toward Republican politics while the mainline churches tend toward Democrat politics. I see three problems with this widespread reality in the American church, and I’m sure you can add to this brief discussion of other problems: What impacts of politicizing the church do you encounter? First, [Read More...]
A Liberal’s Take on Evangelicalism
Aug 22, 2014 @ 9:46 by Leave a Comment
Kelvin Holdsworth offers his ideas of what evangelicalism is and at the link you can read his explanations. Do you think this is fair? accurate? adequate? shallow? I thought I might help Malcolm out with 10 things about Evangelicals that Evangelicals tend not to tell you when you first encounter them and when you first encounter [Read More...]
Evangelicalism: Ten Changes (by Roger Olson)
Jul 6, 2014 @ 13:10 by Leave a Comment
Source (where you can read his explanations for each change): What do you think? What has changed the most in your lifetime? What are the most dramatic changes? First, when I was growing up and well into my early adult years evangelical Christianity in America focused much attention on the return of Jesus Christ. Second, and [Read More...]
What to Call the So-Called New Calvinists?
May 28, 2014 @ 0:02 by Leave a Comment
My friend, Bob Robinson, has made a good case for seeing the New Calvinists as Neo-Puritans. I don’t think we can know this for sure, but it is indeed possible that on this blog that group was first called the Neo-Reformed, but a commenter said they are not really Reformed since they are mostly Baptists and [Read More...]
All About Adam (RJS)
Dec 6, 2013 @ 12:37 by Leave a Comment
From The Economist All About Adam commenting on the ETS session at Baltimore (HT R): A trickier controversy has been triggered by findings from the genome that modern humans, in their genetic diversity, cannot be descended from a single pair of individuals. Rather, there were at least several thousand “first humans”. That challenges the historical [Read More...]
Liberation Themes among Evangelicals
Dec 6, 2013 @ 0:03 by Leave a Comment
“The culture wars, of the late twentieth century began, in part,” Molly Worthen contends, “as a civil war within evangelicalism” (177). So she states in her study of the “gospel of liberation” among evangelicals in her fine study, Apostles of Reason. In the 1960s some American evangelicals looked to the church’s precedents in dealing with the [Read More...]
Who is an Evangelical? Or, Who Decides?
Dec 2, 2013 @ 5:07 by Leave a Comment
A standard story is that the fundamentalists couldn’t handle their own questions so it was the neo-evangelicals who found a better way. The leading lights of neo-evangelicalism were Billy Graham, Carl Henry and Harold John Ockenga. In neo-evangelicalism American evangelicalism found a new kind of unity. That, in fact, is one story but Molly Worthen [Read More...]
The Scandal of the Evangelical Memory, by Geoff Holsclaw (pt 3)
Sep 23, 2013 @ 5:04 by 2 Comments
Scandal of the Evangelical Memory, Part 3 of 5 Geoff, teaching pastor at Life on the Vine Church and a colleague of mine at Northern Seminary, participates as well in Missio Alliance. Falsely accused, John Anderton is a fugitive trying to figure out the truth behind a crime he hasn’t even committed yet. In 2054, [Read More...]
The Scandal of Evangelical Memory (Geoff Holsclaw)
Sep 16, 2013 @ 5:04 by 18 Comments
Geoff, teaching pastor at Life on the Vine Church and a colleague of mine at Northern Seminary, participates as well in Missio Alliance. The Scandal of the Evangelical Memory, Part 2 of 5 “It’s a test designed to provoke an emotional response…Describe only the good things that come to mind about your mother.” Leon Kowalski then [Read More...]
The Many Beating Hearts of Evangelicalism
Sep 2, 2013 @ 4:53 by 13 Comments
Though some think they can simplify evangelicalism, as one hears at times in the media or from some group that thinks it alone is the true heart of evangelicalism, the consensus of intelligent reporting and thinking about this movement is that is a movement with many beating hearts. Many good studies have proven this, and a [Read More...]
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