I think, then, that
most evangelical institutions of higher learning would be happy to say that, in understanding the specific callings of their schools, they are very much in line with Jesuit thinking.
As Noll correctly noted, the research - model is the most expensive to undertake and most
evangelical institutions remain tuition - driven, which requires faculty to be in the classroom more than out of it.
As CT reported, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association put the Russian president on the cover of its Decision Magazine in 2014, and convened meetings between Russian clergy and representatives
from evangelical institutions and the US government later that year.
However, several changes among leadership and priorities have paved the way for other leaders connected
with evangelical institutions to take a stance.
In recent months, the CCCU and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) have discreetly led the charge to
get evangelical institutions to think through potential legal options to safeguard their Christian distinctives as they look ahead to 2017.
The coalition of «about 50 of
major evangelical institutions» will discuss concerns that evangelicalism has come to be too closely related to President Trump and partisan politics.
We've also been working in concert with other
evangelical institutions here at the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities throughout the year on these issues.
Evangelical institutions suing the federal government over the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate expected that their legal battle would end when President Donald Trump took office.
Moody, seen by many as one of the more socially conservative institutions with its radio programs, books and campuses, is among
several evangelical institutions breaking from its cultural past.
Yet, most
evangelical institutions remain firmly committed to the older liberal arts model of formation, fusing it with worldview analysis in order to cultivate an educated Christian laity who can then change society.
The college's suit in the D.C. District Court will be one of the more high - profile actions by
an evangelical institution.
During the Trump presidency, I don't believe this attitude has changed — certainly not at Wheaton College,
the evangelical institution where I now teach.
Imagine what would happen if all
the evangelical institutions — youth organizations, publications, colleges and seminaries, congregations and denominational headquarters — would dare to undertake a comprehensive two - year examination of their total program and activity to answer this question: Is there the same balance and emphasis on justice for the poor and oppressed in our programs as there is in Scripture?
Yet
some evangelical institutions are now growing wary of what they consider the aggressively anti-intellectual leadership of their denominations, and are moving to dissociate themselves from church - controlled governance.
The Wheaton College professor suspended for controversial comments on Islam and Christianity says she respects
the evangelical institution for upholding its principles.
«As someone who's an outsider to
evangelical institutions — I didn't go to a Christian college, I went to Rice University — I think that sometimes the outside voices at Wheaton College are seen as too shrill or a clanging gong as opposed to being said in love.»