Sentences with phrase «evangelical culture»

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

As a result, the sacraments — and all that they entail both for belief and practice — do not create a barrier to the influence of Calvinism in the way that they do for the influence of Lutheranism in American Evangelical culture.

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.

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

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.

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.

What neither group comprehends is that InterVarsity's decisiveness is not the result of pressure by evangelical culture warriors.

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

Evangelical culture values the hero, celebrates the leader, and worships the Man of God up front.

But the greater trouble with these reduced ideas is that modern evangelical culture is so accustomed to this summation that it is difficult for us to see the Gospel as anything other than a list of true statements with which a person must agree.

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.

Discernment is a buzzword in evangelical culture these days.

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.

Conformity is often such a big part of evangelical culture that it's hard to recognize when it's out of balance.

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.

They assume I'm just a smart girl stuck in the Bible Belt asking pesky questions about science, history and politics that my conservative evangelical culture, with a bent toward anti-intellectualism, simply can not answer.

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.

From Relevant: (Forgot to post this one earlier) «Evans» excellent new memoir explores her upbringing in Dayton's evangelical culture, with its unique traditions and its dogmatic certainties.

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

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.

It combined something with which I am intimately familiar (evangelical culture) with something with which I am unfamiliar (card counting) to help me see my own culture from a new perspective.

And goodness knows the evangelical culture has its fair share of cheesiness.

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

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.

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.

After spending his life in the closet within a conservative evangelical culture, Ben, at last, came out and found love and freedom patiently waiting for him on the other side.

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.

I grew up in and came out of an extremely conservative evangelical culture that is still hostile towards Obama as «the anti-Christ» because he happens to be an inspiring but foreign - looking figure.

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

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

It makes sense, for example, for me to joke about the elevation of the Proverbs 31 woman in evangelical culture.

This is blatant, unapologetic misogyny and homophobia, and for more than a decade, the evangelical culture turned a blind eye, inviting Driscoll to headline conferences, publish books, and speak as an «expert» on marriage and gender roles.

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.

This is an enormous blind spot within the evangelical culture, one I also see reflected in its ongoing love affair with the Duck Dynasty cast, even after patriarch Phil Robertson has made, racist, homophobic, and (most recently) violently Islamaphobic remarks.

(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.

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.