Sentences with phrase «about young evangelicals»

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Since young adults perceive evangelical Christianity to be... «unconcerned with social justice», it's a shame that more evangelical churches don't know about the Just Faith program, which provides «opportunities for individuals to study and be formed by the justice tradition articulated by the Scriptures, the Church's historical witness, theological inquiry and Church social teaching» (from jusfaith.org/programs).

I'm a former catholic (childhood) turned evangelical (young adulthood) turned agnostic (post 30) who has an insatiable curiosity about religions.

Cameron, I think you were mentioning earlier about how younger evangelicals are more progressive.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

But because of the path influential people have taken over the last thrity years or so, what young people think of the Religious Right is what they think about evangelicals and even Christians in general.»

And it seems to me that this conundrum in particular — this tendency among young, social media - savvy evangelicals to consume information about the depravity of our culture like Cookie Monster at an Oreo Factory, only to belch out the same tired critiques — comes down to our understanding of the Kingdom of God and how it's made.

U.S. News & World Report has a great article about what many see is a return to liturgy, ritual, and symbol among young evangelicals.

Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.

While young people may be afraid to share their doubts and questions in evangelical churches for fear of judgment and condemnation, they may be just as afraid to share their doubts and questions in mainline churches because no one seems to be talking about those issues!

Maybe young evangelicals like me avoid talking about abortion because it's just not as cool as talking about sex trafficking and immigration.

If our young Evangelical would happen to visit a Lutheran church, long before he hears about theological differences, he will «feel» that the experience of church and spirituality is different in the Lutheran church.

If young evangelicals were concerned about regulating «morality» instead of global social issues then they would all be voting for Perry.

When I use the word «Christian» in the article, I'm not talking about the young woman's theology, which is Bible - based and may be closer to the American evangelical than, say, the liberal Episcopalian pastor down the street!

King, who calls himself «politically homeless,» says that while both parties talk about faith and invoke Scripture, he and other young evangelicals he knows sense an undercurrent of political gamesmanship in all the religious talk.

You also muse about how «many young evangelicals view premarital sex as no big deal,» which leads you to ask: «Is the moral code that we older people believe was dictated by Scripture pass?

You wonder about why «so many young people who remain evangelical» and «want intimacy with God» are «dropping out of organized religion.»

It's just amazing to me to think about the fact that you have scores of millennial and younger evangelicals and I'd say also Gen Xers who are clueless about the actual history of Christianity in this country.

As I said in Lost and Found, in the midst of a hysterical panic about 94 percent of evangelical young adults leaving church, «Crises sell books but usually don't fix problems.»

There was a recent article on the Religious blog about how Evangelical young «uns are not waiting for marriage.

«This thing» to which he refers began in the 1990s when a group of young evangelical leaders initiated a conversation (they still prefer to call it a «conversation» rather than a movement») about renewing the church for mission in a postmodern world.

Even though it won't be released until June of 2010, my first book — a spiritual memoir about growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture only to question my faith as a young adult — is really starting to come to life.

My pastor friend told me I was mistaken about what the phrase «Spiritual but Not Religious» means to many young Evangelical Christians.

Recently, a pastor at an Evangelical church in New York City (we have them) told me about a young man in his congregation who had joined an online dating site.

Using groundbreaking research from The Barna Group, the book explores the attitudes that young people (ages 16 - 29) have about Christianity — specifically, «born again» Christians and «evangelical» Christians.

There was a recent article on the Religious blog about how Evangelical young «uns are not waiting.

My biggest concern is that conservative evangelicals are setting young people up for significant faith crises by not educating them about the evidence.

A group of about 20 religious activists associated with Young Evangelicals for Climate Action traveled to the debate to hold prayer sessions asking that both candidates embrace the «moral» challenge of climate change.