Sentences with phrase «us evangelical culture»

Discernment is a buzzword in evangelical culture these days.

That's compounded often in the religious evangelical culture: «Send me.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

Too many progressive Christian books I see, even if I find them agreeable, are imo just too shallow and narrow, as if trying to appeal to the same kind of shallow interests groups as those of of the mass pop Christian evangelical culture.

Evangelical culture tends to treat women as if their primary purpose in life is to give our husband sex.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

So much of evangelical culture is built around loud, large - scale events.

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

First, our recent dive into parenthood has made me exceedingly glad we ditched the strict gender roles promoted by conservative evangelical culture in favor of a relationship characterized by mutuality and flexibility.

So a big part of me wants to keep «vagina» on principle because I'm tired of getting pushed around by evangelical culture simply because I happen to have one.

In 20 years will people say «that book really changed things in evangelical culture and Adam has become a significant voice in the church» or will they say, in a sexy deep voice: «Adam McHugh: he is the most introverted man in the world.

If, like me, you've spent any amount of time in the evangelical culture, you will relate to this movie.

I've seen this in my own life as my frustrations with the conservative evangelical culture in which I grew up cause me to dismiss its proponents with more anger and disdain than those of any other faith.

And memories of forced union with Reformed churches in Germany in the early nineteenth century (which prompted much Lutheran immigration to the U.S) also induced isolation from broader American Evangelical culture.

The biggest surprise was that my experience in the evangelical culture strengthened my faith.

Though evangelical culture (and many other traditions) would say that if it doesn't look pretty to them, it can not be redemptive.

I don't know enough about evangelical culture to speak for them en masse but I do know many evangelicals who work in slums, garbage dumps and to stop human trafficking to say that it's not always true that only the pretty things are redemptive.

I felt so alienated from the evangelical culture at that moment, so frustrated by the way the very essence of the gospel was cast aside for the seductive temptation of «ridding the world of evil,» one dead terrorist at a time.

As a woman whose opportunities for Christian leadership were severely limited by the conservative evangelical culture in which I was raised, blogging has given me a voice and a reach I would not have otherwise had, and I am so grateful for that.

I don't think I've ever been more angry at the Church, particularly the evangelical culture in which I was raised and with which I for so long identified.

Then, just when you think it can't get any better, Vicky Beeching hits it out of the park with her presentation about what it was like growing up, living, and leading in the evangelical culture, while (until recently) keeping her sexuality a secret.

For those (like me) who grew up in conservative evangelical culture, Chick Tracts are instantly recognizable: the dark, apocalyptic artwork; the obscure human caricatures that somehow resemble everybody and nobody.

First of all, I firmly agree that the Gospel of Jesus should be central, but in contrast to much of the Christian Music (and most of the evangelical culture) of the 1980s, that doesn't mean that the Gospel can, or should, be reduced to a few basic convictions about Jesus.

Like any culture, the evangelical culture in the U.S. has its own linguistic affectations and quirks, blending together lines from Scripture, hymns, and tradition with everyday colloquialisms and figures of speech.

He says he is desperate to be part of something that matters, and calls American evangelical culture» disgusting and anti-Christ!»

As important as it is to seek out better ways of reading the Bible, I think we have to start by deconstructing a bit, and Smith does a good job of addressing what has become a troublesome hallmark of American evangelical culture — biblicism.

Because of this, the evangelical culture dictates that when our worse moments befall us, we must hide.

While Lifeway certainly has every right to choose its own inventory, I think the notion that Christians should dance carefully around reality, that we should speak in euphemisms and only tell comfortable, sanitized stories, is a destructive one that has profoundly affected the evangelical culture as a whole.

(I Timothy 2:12) This little verse has made big waves in the evangelical culture, and all my life I've heard it used to enforce restrictions on the positions women can hold in church leadership.

Because the evangelical culture doesn't take misogyny and homophobia seriously.

All three events, different as they are, point to a significant aspect of conservative evangelical culture.

One of the great problems within the evangelical culture is a repudiation of the arts in general - more specifically, the failure to employ the arts in worship.

In evangelical culture of the last century, «worldliness» had come to signify entertainment or lifestyle choices with which many conservative Christians weren't comfortable.

Write five blog posts a week about how the Republican Party has co-opted the evangelical culture to the point that the two are indistinguishable....

I fully admit to a rather limited scope, and so just know that because I am most familiar with evangelical culture, that is the culture I am most comfortable in addressing.

Not exact matches

I don't like it when atheists want to secularize our culture and shut out any public mention of religion... But I also don't like it when modern evangelical fundamentalists are so ignorant of the Christian Church's teachings and traditions of two thousand years.

Scholars note that evangelical Christianity and our dominant media culture are both too diverse for anyone to take on a singular role like Graham's again.

Evangelical Catholicism creates its own culture.

A Rebirth for the Reborn: American Evangelicals and American Culture at the Cross Tuesday, April 17 Join The Witherspoon Institute and the James Madison Program at Princeton for the 2018 Simon Lecture, delivered by Russell D. Moore.

The standard argument goes something like this: the culture war is either over or increasingly irrelevant to younger generations of evangelicals, who respond to a much broader array....

The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the world to which the laity have greater access than those who are ordained.

Finally, while broader trends in American culture might seem closer to the ideals of liberal Protestants than their evangelical counterparts, I think both groups simply now find themselves on the margins of an American culture that seems out of synch with either brand of Protestant Christianity.

This has many evangelicals very worried because they view the Supreme Court as the decisive field of battle in the culture war.

Whether in evangelical, practical, or intellectual terms, the combination of the three systems in one — the democratic republic, a creative and dynamic economy, and an open, free, and pluralistic culture — has a proven modern record, surpassed by none, of raising up the poor.

Both politicians and so - called Christian leaders are stoking the anxieties of evangelicals to drive them into the voting booth or to drive them out of the culture, but as Henri Nouwen said, «Fear only engenders fear.

It is refreshing when theologians» particularly evangelical theologians» take seriously the task of understanding culture, penetrate the assumptions that imbue the contemporary Zeitgeist, and offer a sustained critique of those assumptions.

The youth group in effect competes with more secular forms of youth culture for the hearts of future evangelicals.

Religious historian Thomas S Kidd writes, «In American pop culture parlance, «evangelical» now basically means whites who consider themselves religious and who vote Republican.»

And while part of the evangelical dilemma can be ascribed to the «scandal» of our noninvolvement in intellectual culture, as one historian has argued, this is only part of the story.

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.