Sentences with phrase «for young evangelicals»
The story of what happened on that January day in 1956 - first told in newsweeklies and Life magazine and then in numerous books and documentaries - became a primary narrative for the young evangelical movement, reinforcing and illustrating to the world our core ideals.
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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).
I was raised Catholic, found myself getting involved in evangelical Christianity during my «youth group» teenage / young adult years, and within the past year have found myself returning to Catholic church for this exact reason:
This week, the Evangelical Immigration Table launched a new prayer campaign for dreamers — young immigrants now facing deportation because the Trump administration has ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)...
«Jesus is Lord,» has become the battle cry for a generation of young evangelicals who are tired of the cushy, safe, anesthetized versions of Jesus that have been far too prevalent in our American Christian subculture.
Young people today could, if we had taken a wise past for the last few decades, think «anti-poverty,» or «pro-environment» or «pro-fidelity» or anti-violence» when they hear «Christian» or «evangelical.»
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.
Mainline churches looking to retain and attract young people, particularly «homeless» evangelicals like myself, would do well to look to Missiongathering as a model, for, at least from my perspective, they have managed to combine all that is great about the mainline with all that is great about evangelicalism into one faith community.
While young people may be afraid to share their doubts and questions in evangelical churches for fear of judgment and condemnation, they may be just as afraid to share their doubts and questions in mainline churches because no one seems to be talking about those issues!
Very recently the university established the Bavinck Center for Evangelical and Reformed Theology (Herman Bavinck, a brilliant and productive champion of Reformed orthodoxy, was Abraham Kuyper's younger colleague).
Evangelical churches that frequently support conservative candidates are finally admitting something the rest of us have known for some time: Their young adult members are abandoning church in significant numbers and taking their voting power with them.
But to his credit, Webb speaks for a lot of young evangelicals who feel disconnected from the mainstream and frustrated with current expressions of faith.
If young evangelicals were concerned about regulating «morality» instead of global social issues then they would all be voting for Perry.
I wonder if «entertainment Church» of the evangelicals is creating a false impression of what Christianity is — you show up for a «rock concert» where some young, flashy people play upbeat music, usually some gorgeous girls, young, attractive men.
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.
Many of the current «young evangelical» writers grew up in the «60s, and could not resist the perceived cogency of certain cultural trends — for instance, racial and sexual equality, or nonviolence.
The young evangelical approaches the problem like this: «Feminism [for example] is true; the Bible teaches the truth; therefore the Bible must teach feminism.»
The trouble, in the end, is this: You say that you intend Letters to a Young Evangelical to be advice for young ChristYoung Evangelical to be advice for young Christyoung Christians.
«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.
Do you think the enthusiasm for Sarah Palin sends mixed messages to young evangelical women?
Since then, I've written a book and a bunch of blog posts pleading with the evangelical community to get rid of some of these «false fundamentals» that act as stumbling blocks for so many young Christians.
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.
«Younger evangelicals and former evangelicals have taken note,» wrote Collin Hansen, editorial director for The Gospel Coalition, in an opinion piece for the Post.
CNN: White House receives political cover on immigration from religious groups President Barack Obama is receiving political cover for his decision to stop deporting some young illegal immigrants from two big groups with whom his relations have been rocky: evangelical Christians and Catholics.
Born out of his own background as an Evangelical Christian, Snyder established the first ever YDA Faith & Values Initiative in 2011 to provide an opportunity for young voters to make a connection between their faith convictions and their political involvement within the Democratic Party.
There was a recent article on the Religious blog about how Evangelical young «uns are not waiting for marriage.
«This thing» to which he refers began in the 1990s when a group of young evangelical leaders initiated a conversation (they still prefer to call it a «conversation» rather than a movement») about renewing the church for mission in a postmodern world.
Washington (CNN)-- President Barack Obama is receiving political cover for his decision to stop deporting some young illegal immigrants from two big groups with whom his relations have been rocky: evangelical Christians and Catholics.
My sense is that younger Evangelicals may be open to reconsidering the uncritical embrace of artificial contraception that has been the norm for Protestants over the last few decades.
As CT reported last month, when several Trump faith advisers met with Nancy Pelosi, evangelicals are mostly eager to find a solution for the young immigrants once protected from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:
Yet many public spokesmen for the religious right now tell Evangelicals — including Evangelical women who have spent their lives teaching Evangelical girls and young women to resist the sexualization of their identity and worth in a hook - up culture, and Evangelical men who learned at Promise Keepers rallies that racial reconciliation is a moral imperative — to «grow up,» to stop being «panty - waists.»
This is one reason why the annual March for Life is filled with younger people — Catholic and Evangelical and otherwise — the very people some told us just a few years ago would turn away from the pro-life movement due to «fetus fatigue.»
The campaign staffer close to the initiative said they thought the program would have specific resonance with key groups the campaign has been targeting for support, Catholics and young evangelicals.
As a young evangelical, I was looking for theologians who could help me break the stranglehold of liberal Protestantism and its faithless idea of religion as purely personal «sentiment.»
The college has joined both the Lilly Network of Church - related Colleges and Universities and the Rhodes Consultation, and participates vigorously in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's summer conferences on the calling of the Lutheran college and in its Lutheran Academy for younger scholars.
Given the shifting religious and political landscape, Wilbanks and Wigg - Stevenson established a separate NGO in Nashville in early 2008 called Biblical Security Covenant, secured a $ 40,000 Connect U.S. grant to «promot [e] the elimination of nuclear weapons as a «top - tier priority for American evangelicals»» and another $ 40,000 grant from the Tides Foundation and began a year and a half of networking and writing articles (often aimed at younger evangelicals in the pages of Relevant) to prepare for Biblical Security Covenant's re-christening as 2FP.
As a young evangelical myself, I confess I have grown tired... no, weary... of responding to comments like these with some honest suggestions for how my fellow evangelicals might avoid said retirement, only to be discounted and disparaged for believing the earth is more than 6,000 years old, for voting for Democrats from time to time, and for daring to serve communion to gays and lesbians.
Many of his heirs were preoccupied with social control in their design to shape the young into the mold of the evangelical empire that moved from Anglo - America into all the world for a century and more.
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.
My biggest concern is that conservative evangelicals are setting young people up for significant faith crises by not educating them about the evidence.
«Don is one of the top names among young evangelicals,» said Joshua DuBois, director of religious affairs for the Barack Obama campaign.
He is a role model for many younger evangelicals.
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A group of about 20 religious activists associated with Young Evangelicals for Climate Action traveled to the debate to hold prayer sessions asking that both candidates embrace the «moral» challenge of climate change.
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There are other groups out there too, from Climate Parents to Young Evangelicals for Climate Action, and recent polling shows that most Americans believe (finally) that climate change is a problem.