Sentences with phrase «as younger evangelicals»

Evangelical colleges likely face generational differences in attitudes toward sexuality as younger evangelicals develop friendships with people who are gay, says David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, a Christian market research firm.

As a young evangelical, I was looking for theologians who could help me break the stranglehold of liberal Protestantism and its faithless idea of religion as purely personal «sentiment.»

As a young evangelical myself, I confess I have grown tired... no, weary... of responding to comments like these with some honest suggestions for how my fellow evangelicals might avoid said retirement, only to be discounted and disparaged for believing the earth is more than 6,000 years old, for voting for Democrats from time to time, and for daring to serve communion to gays and lesbians.

Not exact matches

And it should not be so counterintuitive that young evangelicals such as myself prefer theology rooted in tradition to a spirituality waffling in relativism.

A bright young student raised in a tradition of conservative Evangelical pietism, Mouw recalls that his pastors «often viewed the intellectual life against the background of a cosmic spiritual battle in which the human intellect, especially as it aligns itself with the cause of the academy, is inevitably on the wrong side of the struggle.»

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

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»!)

I generally write with an evangelical audience in mind, but as others have rightly noted, it's not just evangelical churches losing young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addresseAs evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addresseas many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

Beginning life as a convinced young Evangelical, he gradually adopted the Tractarian High Churchmanship promoted by Keble and Newman, before embracing, with all possible fervour, the Ultramontane, Italianate Catholicism introduced into England by Cardinal Wiseman.

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.

As I've spoken with young evangelicals across the country, I've found that many of them are rediscovering the Church's ancient commitment to ritual.

The U.S. News & World Report article also presents some theories as to why young evangelicals are drawn to tradition.

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.

As a result, the past decade has seen a precipitous decline in young evangelical identification with the Republican Party.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.

She says her research revealed that more than 60 % of young evangelicals support more governmental programs to aid the needy, as well as more emphasis on economic justice and environmental protection issues.

New loyalties are emerging as such insights are combined with the values young evangelicals find in the biblical interpretations of William Stringfellow, Jacques Ellul, John Howard Yoder, Dale Brown and others who do not share the «inerrancy» assumption.

Here the center of controversy has been another Fuller theologian, Paul K. Jewett, who also serves as dean of the Young Life Institute offering theological education to the staff of a popular evangelical youth movement.

David Kinnaman, whose book «You Lost Me» examines why young evangelicals are leaving the church, says more youth see heterosexual marriage as outdated.

The Evangelicals do not appear to wish to mount a counter-attack against the Supreme Court... the older Evangelicals may not have the funds to donate to «changing the Nation» (many are retiring), and the current young Evangelicals see «gay marriage» as a minor event.

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?

As you did in Adventures in Missing the Point, the 2003 book you co-wrote with Brian McLaren, you raise questions that are supposed to make us young evangelicals think.

«2 The diversity which Henry, as one of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.

Since then, I've written a book and a bunch of blog posts pleading with the evangelical community to get rid of some of these «false fundamentals» that act as stumbling blocks for so many young Christians.

My inbox is filled with messages from young evangelicals who feel angered and betrayed as they watch their religious community align itself with values they don't recognize.

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.»

Born out of his own background as an Evangelical Christian, Snyder established the first ever YDA Faith & Values Initiative in 2011 to provide an opportunity for young voters to make a connection between their faith convictions and their political involvement within the Democratic Party.

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.

It is the evangelicals who power massive communities like Willow Creek in Chicago and the Vineyard Fellowships with all their huge appeal to the young, as well as what is claimed to be the largest single congregation not just in London but even in Europe - Kingsway International Christian Church.

As CT reported last month, when several Trump faith advisers met with Nancy Pelosi, evangelicals are mostly eager to find a solution for the young immigrants once protected from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:

Given the shifting religious and political landscape, Wilbanks and Wigg - Stevenson established a separate NGO in Nashville in early 2008 called Biblical Security Covenant, secured a $ 40,000 Connect U.S. grant to «promot [e] the elimination of nuclear weapons as a «top - tier priority for American evangelicals»» and another $ 40,000 grant from the Tides Foundation and began a year and a half of networking and writing articles (often aimed at younger evangelicals in the pages of Relevant) to prepare for Biblical Security Covenant's re-christening as 2FP.

This disillusionment with the culture war, coupled with what might be thought of as an attendant «neo-Anabaptist turn,» has provoked in younger evangelicals an exploding interest in more communitarian aspects of church life and the integration of the gospel with what might be labeled «progressive» social justice concerns.

Many of the young people who are students in the ecumenically oriented Christian colleges are as influenced by the Evangelical Union as they are by the Student Christian Movement.

Now, Driscoll has often referred to these as his «angry young prophet days,» and says he hopes to move to a more fatherly role as he continues as a pastor and leader in evangelical Christianity.

That's the implication in the upcoming October issue of an evangelical magazine that claims that young, unmarried Christians are having premarital sex almost as much as their non-Christian peers.

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Based on a novel and play by Bishop T. D. Jakes, an evangelical preacher who plays himself in the film, «Woman» is the story of Michelle Jordan (Kimberly Elise), a young woman who was raped as a child by her mother's brutal boyfriend (Clifton Powell).

The World Cinema Screenwriting Award was presented to Young & Wild, co-written by Marialy Rivas, Camila Gutiérrez, Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Sepúlveda — 17 - year - old Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.