And of course there are appropriately reasoned political defenses for pacifism (e.g., that of Martin Luther King, Jr.) and other positions espoused
by young evangelicals.
Just the other day I picked up a book
by a young evangelical who criticized postmodernism and wrote, «Still worse is deconstructionism, which says, «It's not that I don't know the truth, it's that I just don't care.
Not exact matches
But in recent years I have come to appreciate the fact that many promising
younger evangelical scholars got their start in a serious commitment to the life of the mind
by responding positively to the LaHaye - type call to intellectual warfare.
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).
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.
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.
Evangelicals who are committed to a broader application of the gospel — a subgroup recently given the quasi-official label «
Young Evangelicals» — have been «discovered»
by the larger world in the past few years.
«Whereas
evangelical churches (and increasing numbers of mainline ones) seek to attract
young people
by designing spaces stripped of Christian symbols or tradition, JW people seem to like the traditional feel of the sanctuary, with its dark wood, stained glass and high ceilings.
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?
«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.
What respectable gay people do pales in comparison to recreational abortion practiced
by young Christian girls at
evangelical colleges.
Intensely aware of, but disturbed
by, the pattern of self - segregation among
young Korean American
evangelicals, Ecklund is less interested in understanding the roots of their religious behavior than in analyzing its consequences for American civic life.
His now - famous 1949 Los Angeles crusade, where William Randolph Hearst supposedly «discovered» and presented him to the nation like an
evangelical debutante, was in fact a meticulously orchestrated event, accompanied
by a storm of handbills, billboards and full - page newspaper ads heralding «America's Sensational
Young Evangelist» — accompanied of course
by a «Dazzling Array of Gospel Talent.»
Culturally there will be marked return to helping the poor (both domestically and internationally) and political and social engagement
by a
younger / more racially diverse,
evangelical people.
Rhonda Kelley, co-editor of the New
Evangelical Women's Commentary, said this of
young Christian women today: «Not only do they not have a framework, but in many situations our women students have been raised
by mothers who were a product of the feminist movement.
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.
An
evangelical megachurch pastor has lost his job and is being investigated
by the Lake County, Ind., Sheriff's Department after admitting that he had an «improper relationship» with a
young woman, a spokesman for First Baptist Church of Hammond said.
But Evans is among a growing number of
young evangelicals who are questioning the status quo promoted
by these gatekeepers.»
My biggest concern is that conservative
evangelicals are setting
young people up for significant faith crises
by not educating them about the evidence.
A Democratic assemblyman
by the time he was 23, the
younger Díaz rose in the political world before his father — a heroin junkie - turned -
evangelical preacher — assumed his place in the State Senate.
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.