As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“As an evangelical myself, I won’t be taking the Washington Post’s recommendation that it is time for evangelicals to ‘panic.’ The Lord is on his throne, and he will accomplish his purposes with or without a healthy, coherent American evangelical community.
“Fundamentalists may think that issues like these outside our movement will impact us little. However, it is in no one’s best interest to see the SBC surrender the ground gained in the Conservative Resurgence to cultural liberalism.” - P & D
I minister in a church sub-culture that has no understanding of the fundamentalism/evangelical debates. I received theological training from an excellent fundamentalist seminary. But, the church I serve has no self-conscious fundamentalist identity, even though it’s a member of the GARBC. It’s an “evangelical” church, though many members might not know exactly what that means.
“What most bothers the public about evangelicals is that they are ‘too pushy with their beliefs.’ That is, people don’t like being witnessed to. That evangelicals care about non-Christians’ temporal problems, for which Jesus can help them, and their eternal destiny, for which Jesus offers free salvation, does not matter.” - Gene Veith
“The need to define the term seems universal among those trying to get a handle on the history. In Kidd’s piece, he shows how the term evangelical now carries political baggage. He traces this development through recent decades. (Well, they seem recent to a certain set, at least!)” - Don Johnson
“… both West and Osteen have been talking quite often recently, particularly since West has continued to profess his devotion to God.” - Christian Post
“A historian, an ethicist and a pastor – all Baptists – displayed a difference of opinion on the usefulness of the word ‘evangelical’ and the state of evangelicalism in an Oct. 29 conversation at the Museum of the Bible.” - BR Now
“Olson’s introduction to postfundamentalist evangelicalism (new evangelicalism) is striking in that the history I was taught by fundamentalist professors matches exactly what Olson describes.” - Don Johnson
“Upon the announcement that Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary has hired Dr. Karen Swallow Prior as a research professor of English and Christianity & Culture, my Twitter feed exploded….It didn’t take long, though, for tweets of disproval to trickle into my thread from those upset that a conservative seminary would hire a woman as a professor.” - John Ellis
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