Review of Mark Galli's “When Did We Start Forgetting God?”
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“Few aspects of church life escape Galli’s censure.
Fact and Fiction About Racism and the Rise of the Religious Right
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“According to this narrative, Evangelical leaders mainly supported abortion rights. They jumped into the culture war only when the IRS moved to strip the tax exemptions from racially discriminatory schools. Opposition to integration is the poisonous acorn that grew into the mighty political oak of conservative Christianity.” - David French
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New National Association of Evangelicals president calls for evangelicals to address ‘identity crisis’ without fear
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Walter Kim at his March 4 inauguration: “This movement is confronting an identity crisis and it’s not just the mild sort of growing pains….The challenges are real and they have to be confronted with honesty…but not with fear.” - RNS
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Evangelicals downplay religious expression when working with secular groups
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“For example, we found that when the 26,000 evangelicals from 500 churches volunteered with Portland’s Serving the City initiative, they adopted a self-imposed ‘no-proselytizin’” policy as they helped with cleaning up parks, refurbishing schools and conducting clothing drives.” - The Conversation
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3 in 5 Evangelicals Live in Asia or Africa
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“Globally, evangelicals number 660 million and represent 26% of the world’s Christian population, according to estimates from researcher Sebastian Fath. In addition, the research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research in France and specialist in the study of evangelicalism says more than 60% of evangelicals live in Asia or Africa.” - F&T
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Despite Stigma, More Divorced Evangelicals Are Going to Church
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Per the General Society Survey, divorced evangelical attendance outpaces other traditions, but still lags far behind married evangelicals. - Christianity Today
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What Happened to ‘Evangelicals’? How Politics Seized a Precious Word
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“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.
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Fundys, Evangelicals and the Eye of a Needle
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.
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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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