Evangelicalism

The Baptist Bulletin’s Norm Olson reports.

NPR interviews Randall Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America.

“Both Purpose Driven and the emerging church promote contemplative spirituality, which is a belief system that is contrary to biblical Christianity. Popular authors such as Richard Foster, Brian McLaren, Rick Warren, Henri Nouwen, Brennan Manning and many others teach contemplative spirituality (also known as spiritual formation).”
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Thabiti Anyabwile comments.
HT: Ben Wright

John H Armstrong gives some personal insight on Mark Noll’s departure from Wheaton to replace George Marsden at Notre Dame.

“(T)he National Association of Evangelicals (NAE)—representing 52 member denominations and about 30 million evangelicals—has become one of the most talked-about lobbying groups in the nation.”
See this Wall Street Journal article.

“…(O)ur model of Jesus has to be one that He commends. This means that, while maintaining all appropriate humility and never considering ourselves morally superior, we will discriminate against false teachers, not converse with them. This means we will have to know what constitutes true teaching and what constitutes false teaching.”
-David Wayne, JollyBlogger

Looks like Fundamentalists aren’t the only ones struggling with labels. John Buckerdige of the UK magazine Christianity struggles with the identity of the “E” word. A NY Times article (reg. req’d) shows many in the US experience similar angst over the evangelical label.