{"id":41242,"date":"2017-04-10T23:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T05:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41242"},"modified":"2017-04-11T00:07:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T06:07:54","slug":"goodbye-evangelicalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/04\/goodbye-evangelicalism.html","title":{"rendered":"“Goodbye, Evangelicalism”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Falat, \"Ash Wednesday\" painting<\/a>
Julian Falat, \u201cAsh Wednesday\u201d (1881); \u00a0\u00a0Wikimedia Commons public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is a somewhat lengthy but, to me, really interesting blog entry<\/a> from Rod Dreher (he of The Benedict Option<\/em>), substantially made up of a note from someone who has left Evangelicalism with his family because they found it unsatisfying:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/goodbye-evangelicalism\/<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t post it in any way as a criticism or mockery of Evangelical Protestantism. \u00a0Rather, I hope that at least a few Latter-day Saints will read it and think about it and about the Restoration and the Restored Church. \u00a0How would we fare under such criticism? \u00a0What do we have to offer? \u00a0What, if anything, might we do better?<\/p>\n

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This is yet another in my new sporadic series of posted reflections, or occasions\u00a0for reflection, on how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> can flourish and grow in the age of the religious \u201cnones.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prior entries can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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