Sentences with phrase «evangelical subculture»

Having grown up in the conservative evangelical subculture during the 80s and 90s, when the Apostle Paul's instruction to «always be ready with an answer» became the rallying cry of Christians around the country, I got bombarded with apologetics.

This issue is indicative of a large problem in evangelical subculture, which often equates Christianity with voting a certain way, listening to certain music and generally not being «weird» — unless it's weird for Jesus.

As I mentioned in the last post, those of us raised in the conservative evangelical subculture during the apologetics movement of the 80s and 90s grew up with the charge to «always be ready to give an answer» in defense of the Christian faith.

While various evangelical subcultures may find different female teachers filling their social media feeds and Amazon recommendations (Austin - based Hatmaker seems especially popular among white women in the South and Midwest), the numbers show that the top names in women's ministry rival or even outdraw high - profile televangelists and megachurch pastors.

Randall Balmer's study of the American evangelical subculture.

Asbury Seminary's Craig Keener notes the difference between evangelical subculture and faith.

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.

Indeed, he said, «the entire evangelical subculture itself is a socially constructed reality... Evangelicals feel secure within the cocoon of this contrived universe of churches, summer camps, Bible institutes, colleges, and seminaries.»

Having grown up in the conservative evangelical subculture that cast salvation as little more than a ticket out of hell that you cash in on Judgment Day, I've personally been enthralled and challenged by the emerging church's perspective on the Kingdom of God.

Growing up in the evangelical subculture of the 80s and 90s, I was well versed in the language of the pro-life cause, as familiar with Roe vs. Wade and the silhouette of a tiny fetus as I was with Disney princesses and contemporary Christian music.

Like a lot of twenty - somethings who grew up in the conservative evangelical subculture, I've been increasingly drawn to the emerging church movement.

Growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture, I continued to hear about the wise man and the foolish man's respective real estate decisions for many years.

Those who grew up in the evangelical subculture will especially appreciate Turner's stories about accountability groups, contemporary Christian music, and how the Holy Spirit was so involved in the everyday decisions of Christian college students that he appeared to work part - time in Belmont's admission office.

As missionary personnel and Christian soldiers reported the humanitarian crisis to their constituencies in America, concern for the physical well - being of downtrodden Koreans began to percolate through the evangelical subculture.

It allows them to locate sin outside of the evangelical subculture (or so they think) by designating as especially egregious those dispositions and behaviors, homosexuality and abortion, that they believe characteristic of others, not themselves.»

And yet, as the years went by, I soon learned that to be a woman in the conservative evangelical subculture is to never quite understand your place in this world.

In suggesting that the evangelical subculture is simply a socially constructed reality, does Balmer mean to imply that the «larger world»» the world, presumably, of academia and the cultural elite» is not so constructed?

By directing his students through an intensive course in social criticism and neo-orthodox theology, Frank wants to make them see that the evangelical subculture is based, as he puts it, «upon lies and denials,» and that it has become blinded by moralism to the real gospel of Jesus Christ.

Still, the evangelical subculture persists, Balmer reasons, because of its timeless appeal.

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture by randall balmer oxford university press, 246 pages, $ 19.95

The evangelical subculture, Balmer argues, is just a «socially constructed reality,» one that is «illusory and incongruous with the larger world.»

As I wrote in a previous post, growing up as a woman in the evangelical subculture means living with a barrage of mixed messages.

The evangelical subculture is not alone in uncritical acceptance of family - related sacred cows.

One of the sacred cows of the evangelical subculture is the family altar.

I feel that the interview represents a broader problem within the conservative evangelical subculture — that there is a high tolerance for un-Christlike behavior / anti-biblical perspectives so long as they are presented by someone representing Republican Party values.

Growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture, my friends and I used to say that we hoped God would delay the rapture until after we had the chance to get married and have sex.

The emphasis that some women evangelical leaders place on motherhood appears to be connected to women taking on more prominent roles in the antiabortion movement, which is closely tied to the evangelical subculture.

Indeed, growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture, I was pretty convinced that if I could just read enough books, I could get closer to understanding God.

Growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture, I was often told that I should strive to practice «biblical womanhood.»

How our food lives and dies has not been a regular topic of discussion in the evangelical subculture, but a recent effort by a number of prominent Christian social conservatives may open up a needed conversation.

The sign said: «Modern American Culture Museum of the Oxford University Press: Tonight's Feature: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture of America.»

It's my impression, moreover, that most people reared in the evangelical subculture either embrace it altogether or abandon it altogether.

The question really is: how can I as a member of the Wheaton community and conservative evangelicalism make a break with the fathers of neoevangelicalism (i.e., Carl F. H. Henry) and advocate a method contrary to the authority they exercise over the evangelical subculture of which I am a part?

Book Review: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture of America.

Time «s evangelicals constitute a sort of mosaic of today's evangelical subculture.