What respectable gay people do pales in comparison to recreational abortion practiced by young Christian girls
at evangelical colleges.
As I have celebrated the leadership of early evangelical women, while speaking
at evangelical colleges, not everyone has been terribly pleased.
Not exact matches
Dr. Henry, an associate professor of political science
at Calvin
College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the author of Politics for
Evangelicals.
Instead I studied English literature, writing, and Bible
at a conservative
evangelical college that taught me from Day 1 that feminism is an anti-Christian worldview to be distrusted and categorically rejected.
I had a classmate
at an
evangelical Christian
college who repeatedly defined faith as «stepping out of airplanes, knowing that God will catch you.»
He founded FOCUS after his own experience: brought up in a Catholic family, he lost his faith in his teenage years — and rediscovered it through
Evangelical students
at college, who helped him to encounter Christ in the Scriptures.
More than 100
evangelical leaders gathered today
at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism (BGCE)
at Wheaton
College to discuss how American Christians can best respond to the current refugee crisis.
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»!)
Warren S Brown is a professor of psychology
at the Fuller Theological Seminary (a multi-denominational
evangelical theological
college in the US) and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute.
I've been speaking
at many small
colleges that have historical ties to the oldest mainline denominations in the U.S. I have been noticing something interesting: a terrific hunger for a deeper spirituality on the part of many young people who come from
evangelical backgrounds like mine and also like me are looking for something outside of the right wing conservatism they come from.
A surprising number of
evangelicals disagree,
at least for campus ministries
at public
colleges.
A professor
at an
evangelical liberal arts
college explained to me that he liked the intense confrontation, saying: «My money goes to Jews for Jesus, because you can see they are doing something.
I did a quick analysis of Liberty University's Rawlings School of Divinity and here are the results: Seminaries represented by
at least one graduate degree: Westminster Notre Dame Gordon - Conwell Northwest Nazarene Moody Bible Institute Western Freewill Baptist Bible College Arlington Bible College Denver Seminary New Orleans Baptist BJU Seminary Baylor Fuller Asbury Talbot Los Angeles Baptist Capitol At least 2 degrees represented: Calvary BC William Tyndale Grand Rapids Regent At least 3 degrees represented: Baptist Bible College At least 4 degrees represented: Trinity Evangelical Southwestern Baptist TS 5 degrees: Grace Theological Seminary 8 degrees: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 9 degrees: Dallas Theological Seminary 10 degrees: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and finally, with a whopping 28 professors degrees: Liberty Baptist Theological Semina
at least one graduate degree: Westminster Notre Dame Gordon - Conwell Northwest Nazarene Moody Bible Institute Western Freewill Baptist Bible
College Arlington Bible
College Denver Seminary New Orleans Baptist BJU Seminary Baylor Fuller Asbury Talbot Los Angeles Baptist Capitol
At least 2 degrees represented: Calvary BC William Tyndale Grand Rapids Regent At least 3 degrees represented: Baptist Bible College At least 4 degrees represented: Trinity Evangelical Southwestern Baptist TS 5 degrees: Grace Theological Seminary 8 degrees: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 9 degrees: Dallas Theological Seminary 10 degrees: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and finally, with a whopping 28 professors degrees: Liberty Baptist Theological Semina
At least 2 degrees represented: Calvary BC William Tyndale Grand Rapids Regent
At least 3 degrees represented: Baptist Bible College At least 4 degrees represented: Trinity Evangelical Southwestern Baptist TS 5 degrees: Grace Theological Seminary 8 degrees: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 9 degrees: Dallas Theological Seminary 10 degrees: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and finally, with a whopping 28 professors degrees: Liberty Baptist Theological Semina
At least 3 degrees represented: Baptist Bible
College At least 4 degrees represented: Trinity Evangelical Southwestern Baptist TS 5 degrees: Grace Theological Seminary 8 degrees: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 9 degrees: Dallas Theological Seminary 10 degrees: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and finally, with a whopping 28 professors degrees: Liberty Baptist Theological Semina
At least 4 degrees represented: Trinity
Evangelical Southwestern Baptist TS 5 degrees: Grace Theological Seminary 8 degrees: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 9 degrees: Dallas Theological Seminary 10 degrees: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and finally, with a whopping 28 professors degrees: Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
Another study sampled students
at nine
evangelical colleges in an attempt to determine how effective these institutions were in providing plausibility structures for
evangelical beliefs.
Why are they so often found behind pulpits and in administrative positions
at these little
evangelical colleges sharing with young people the fruits of their knowledge of good and evil?
Mara Einstein of Queen's
College, New York, is not
at all sure about those «
evangelicals that are cozying up to the Jewish community and providing support for the state of Israel.
Larry Eskridge is associate director of the Institute for the Study of American
Evangelicals at Wheaton
College in Illinois.
Calling yourself a Christian, for example, is no longer cool among
evangelicals on
college campuses, says Robert Crosby, a theology professor
at Southeastern University in Florida.
During the Trump presidency, I don't believe this attitude has changed — certainly not
at Wheaton
College, the
evangelical institution where I now teach.
«Because this is
at some level a moral issue, and the religious community can not stand idly by and allow a moral issue like this to go without a comment,» said Carlos Campo, president of Virginia's Regent University, the
college founded by
evangelical icon Pat Robertson.
She is Director of Studies
at the Institut Biblique de Nogent - sur - Marne on the outskirts of Paris, a
College for Christian leaders in the
Evangelical tradition.
«The story here continues to be continuity in the strength of
evangelical support for GOP candidates, rather than greater intensity,» said Kevin den Dulk, political science professor
at Calvin
College.
«The history of American evangelicalism is critical in understanding how many things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values of politically engaged
evangelicals since the 1960s,» said Kristin Du Mez, a historian
at Calvin
College and the author of a forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton's faith.
I was a Psychology major
at Wheaton
College (an
Evangelical Christian
College) and somehow, one teacher had us read Frankl — like you, he was of many thinkers that rocked my exclusive Christian world.
Yet Ed Stetzer — who holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism
at Wheaton
College — believes this is no reason to drop
evangelical.
«It's important to note that white
evangelicals, like so many voters this year, had significant reservations about both candidates,» said Amy Black, professor of political science
at Wheaton
College.
Early this week, about 50 prominent
evangelical leaders met
at Wheaton
College outside Chicago to discuss their movement's association with President Trump.
«
Evangelicals are not traditionally the innovators in gender roles, so they're not going to be
at the vanguard,» says Lindsay, who was recently appointed president
at Gordon
College and who wrote the book Faith in the Halls of Power.
When 16,000
college students gathered
at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's latest Urbana conference to talk about missions, one of the main debates became how
evangelicals should engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.
While some
evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the
evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin
College,
at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).
1920 Rev. Curtis Lee Laws first uses term «fundamentalist» 1920 Prohibition 1920 19th Amendment gives women right to vote 1921 Latin American Mission (Harry and Susan Strachan) 1923 J. Gresham Machen publishes Christianity and Liberalism 1924
Evangelical Theological
College, later called Dallas Theological Seminary 1925 Scopes «Monkey» Trial 1927 First «talking» motion picture 1928 Henrietta Mears becomes Director of Christian Education
at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood 1929 Stock market crash begins Great Depression 1929 Fundamentalists leave Princeton to form Westminster Theological Seminary
Establishment evangelicalism was reinforced by the Billy Graham Center's location
at Wheaton
College, by Christianity Today's removal from Washington, D.C., to Chicago suburbs where
evangelical independency has deep roots, and by formation of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.
I've also been struck by the idea that many American
evangelical missionaries and missiologists, and perhaps the Apostle Paul himself, would be in danger of dismissal if they taught
at Wheaton
College, since many of us arguably have been guilty of the very thing Wheaton
College is sanctioning.
Several attendees walked out of an intense invite - only
evangelical meeting this week
at Wheaton
College after the affair turned into «crazy Trump bashing.»
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Fayose was the President of the
Evangelical Presbyterian University
College at Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana.
Steven Studebaker, associate professor of systematic and historical theology and the Howard & Shirley Bengal Chair in
evangelical thought
at McMaster Divinity
College in Hamilton, Ontario, is planning on including in his Protestant theologians class John Polkinghorne, physicist and Anglican priest, and Philip Clayton, philosopher of religion and science.
Schamus also excels
at rendering the book's centerpiece scene, an extended conversation between the Jewish - born, atheist Marcus and his Midwestern
college's
evangelical Dean Caudwell (Tracy Letts), with all the escalating tension of Roth's prose.
February 28, 2018 • David Greene talks to Ed Stetzer, who directs the Billy Graham Center
at Wheaton
College, one of the country's leading Christian
colleges, about the ongoing struggles within
evangelicals.
This led
evangelicals to dismiss most secular ideas, explains Noll, a professor
at the
evangelical Wheaton
College, and to fail «notably in sustaining serious intellectual life.»