As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
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
“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
“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
Per the General Society Survey, divorced evangelical attendance outpaces other traditions, but still lags far behind married evangelicals. - Christianity Today
“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.
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.
“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
“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
“One thing that I perhaps should mention is that evangelicalism (and fundamentalism) is the sum of reactions to the Enlightenment. In this sense, both movements are reactionary, but with turtle-like reactions of decades to a problem now centuries old.” - Don Johnson
“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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