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...]

“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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]