«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.
Not exact matches
Evangelical colleges likely face generational differences in attitudes toward sexuality as
younger evangelicals develop friendships with people who are gay, says David Kinnaman, president
of the Barna
Group, a Christian market research firm.
In the case
of the Emergent movement, I wonder if some
of the additional cognitive dissonance comes from it moving away from
Young Leaders, which (in my understanding) was primarily a
group that was
evangelical and relatively conservative theologically, and moving toward progressive Emergentism.
So the question is: Can
young evangelicals get along well enough to create a new generation
of evangelicalism that includes both
of these
groups?
Ben Lowe, a 28 - year - old organizer
of the
young evangelical group, went to the debate to «bear witness to the lack
of climate science» in the race.
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.
They point out that Christian
evangelical groups already have infiltrated the lives
of America's children through after - school religious programming in public schools, and they appear determined to give
young students a choice: Jesus or Satan.
«I wouldn't confuse a lack
of noise with a lack
of action,» according to Ben Lowe, director
of young adult ministries at the
Evangelical Environmental Network, one
of the oldest religious
groups focused on environmental issues in the United States.