The Rise and Fall of ‘WWJD’ Merch
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“In the ’90s, WWJD merch appeared on everyone from Christian teens to their non-Christian friends to athletes to pop stars to politicians. Here is the story of how it happened.” - Relevant
What Is “Fundamentalism?” A Personal and Professional Perspective
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“A problem was that these 1920s through 1950s American fundamentalists could not get together under one umbrella. And they became increasingly narrow, dogmatic, anti-intellectual, separatistic and suspicious even of each other—as to degrees of influence by liberal thought.” - Roger Olson
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Presbyterian Church in America votes to leave National Association of Evangelicals
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“At issue… is the NAE’s advocacy work….specifically names the Fairness for All Act drafted by the National Association of Evangelicals and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.” - RNS
More at Christianity Today
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Why the FBFI?
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“We enjoyed tremendous services and other sessions at our recent annual meeting….You can find audio and video for our sessions here (not all sessions recorded in video). One of our afternoon panel discussions featured a worthy question for our panelists, ‘Why join the FBFI?’” - P&D
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Russell Moore Condemns Prioritization of Unity at the Expense of Truth
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“I am seeing this in a lot of other institutions [other than SBC], is that the healthiest people are disengaging, because they are not the people who want to go through the nonsense that one has to go in these things.” - Juicy Ecumenism
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Thinking about that 'Define evangelical' thing, with Andrew Walker, Ryan Burge (and Mark Noll)
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“Careful readers may have noticed that… I called it a ‘church-history term’ and I’m sticking to that.” - GetReligion
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MacArthur on Fundamentalism
When The Master’s University (TMU) hired BJU’s Vice President Sam Horn as its President and when a friendly picture of West Coast Baptist College President Paul Chappell surfaced with John MacArthur on Twitter, some of us believed that a convergence was taking place between the left flank of Fundamentalism and the right flank of Evangelicalism.
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Liberalism Is (Still) a Threat to Fundamentalism
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“For as much as Fosdick thought of himself as irenic, moderate, and peace-loving, one doesn’t entitle a sermon ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?’ without meaning to pick a fight.” - Kevin DeYoung
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What Is Antisemitism? Evangelicals Favor Different Definitions
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The European Evangelical Alliance “warned that antisemitism is rising around the world. Taking a concrete step April 26 in opposition, it announced its adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of the issue.” - C.Today
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Will More Mainstream "Evangelical" Leaders Change Their Position on Abortion?
We have seen some self-designated “evangelical” leaders change their position on LGBTQ issue, and very many — for a very long time — on the issue of women pastors/elders. The last conviction standing in the moral/social realm, it seems, is abortion.
Now with the clamor because of the potential supreme court ruling, will many cave-in on this last hold out of Biblical morality?
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Will More Mainstream “Evangelical” Leaders Change Their Position on Abortion?
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