Fundamentalism & Evangelicalism

“I’m talking more about the disconnect between what people really believe and what the expectations of the tribe demand. And that is what I see to be so dangerous and exhausting to people.” - RNS

“we might safely conclude that many of those who joined and helped it spring up so quickly had shallow roots. Overall, Christians were not cultivated with deep roots in the truth God has revealed about Himself, His world, human beings, and His plan to make all things new.” - Breakpoint

“Too many see their religious beliefs as an application of their cultural or political values. They identify as a Republican or as conservative with a set of principles and lifestyles attending that alignment. They then see ‘evangelical’ as another way to describe the same set of values” - W.Examiner

“Now that I look back on that way of life, I’m not ashamed of it. Our legalism and separation from all ‘worldliness’ kept me from falling into many dangers.” - Olson

“To identify charismatics, we asked respondents whether they attended religious services where people engage in signature practices and beliefs of Pentecostal and charismatic movements: speaking in tongues, receiving direct revelation from God, divine healing, or receiving a definite answer to a prayer.” - PRRI

“I say Temple was ‘historic’ because its founding went back to 1892 and it was led for several years by a well-known but notorious pastor, J. Frank Norris… ‘The combined membership of the two churches was roughly 25,000’” - Ken Brown

“Much evangelical superficiality depends on a one-sided, sentimental, or flattened reading of the ‘slice’ of Roman Catholicism that one is most familiar with, without taking into account the reality of the ‘whole’ ” - Evangelical Focus

“Nearly three quarters of evangelicals agree that a properly trained and certified woman can preach on Sunday morning. Just 12% disagree with that statement and 15% have no opinion.” - GetReligion