Are We Evangelicals?

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“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

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Baptists differ over evangelical movement

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“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

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The Evangelical Coalition

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“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

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“It’s no wonder that many young evangelicals are becoming egalitarians.”

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“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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National Association of Evangelicals’ New President Hopes to Bring Together a Movement in Crisis

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“Anderson and others have tried to keep the movement’s name from being hijacked as merely a political marker….Now Kim takes on these challenges, which have intensified during Donald Trump’s presidency. Christians are increasingly and explicitly asking what it means to be an evangelical today, with recent releases like Who Is an Evangelical?

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