Ralph Reed Plans Major Evangelical Election Turnout
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“Evangelical leader and former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed is back with a major new push designed to get religious voters into the booths on Election Day.”
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Athenticity: "Talking bluntly about myself all the time."
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Trueman interview video discusses use of humor, the Christian celebrity phenomenon, pseudo-authenticity, “Christian Freudom,” … a little bit on fundamentalism (36:16 or so). (Larger view)
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Religion Census: Independent evangelical churches now third largest religious segment in US
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“Counted together, independent evangelical congregations comprise one of the largest religious groups in the nation, after Roman Catholics and their evangelical counterparts in the Southern Baptist Convention.” Religion Census charts congregations: 2010 survey is first to list independent evangelical bodies
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The Dangers of Fundamentalism In Leadership
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Yet, at the same time, Christ’s admonition to the church is that they have made addressing heresy and licentious behavior their primary purpose, above what Jesus had taught as the two greatest commandments (Matthew 22:37–40).
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Dr. Bruce Ware on Fundamentalism, Gender Issues and Contemporary Issues
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Last weekend David Crabb interviewed Bruce Ware about three issues.
- Gender issues (28:25)
- Fundamentalism and evangelicalism (24:34)
- Contemporary issues (25:03)
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Book Review - The Advent of Evangelicalism
Amazon Affiliate LinkThe Advent of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities is a compendium of essays written in response to David Bebbington’s Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989). A key tenet of Bebbington’s work is that the evangelical movement was a product of the Enlightenment, beginning in the 1730s with the revivals of John Wesley and George Whitefield.
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