Moody Bible Institute, one of the oldest and most respected
evangelical colleges in America — and alma mater of Left Behind author and Nicolas Cage - inspirer Jerry Jenkins — has lifted their long - standing ban on faculty drinking.
Instead I studied English literature, writing, and Bible at a conservative
evangelical college that taught me from Day 1 that feminism is an anti-Christian worldview to be distrusted and categorically rejected.
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.
God, the actual inspiration behind the private
evangelical college in Chicago's suburbs, announced long ago that he would come to this world as a human being to express his support for the human race.
Even though they are still banned from consuming beer while students, many recent graduates of
evangelical colleges are starting to make an impact in the craft beer industry.
As I have celebrated the leadership of early evangelical women, while speaking at
evangelical colleges, not everyone has been terribly pleased.
So, for example, after leaving Wheaton College (
an Evangelical college), I attended a synagogue (Reformed) for a year and studied Hebrew.
Attorneys have filed a total of six lawsuits on behalf of
evangelical colleges against the mandate: Biola and Grace join Wheaton College, Geneva College, Colorado Christian University, and Louisiana College.
«If you try to use [legislation] to force a private [school] to do something, that could come back to
our evangelical colleges and seminaries,» said Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) national coordinator Rod Mays.
In addition to new
evangelical colleges and seminaries, the decade of the «70s has seen the creation of many new Christian primary and secondary schools.
Sinkinson now teaches within
an evangelical college setting.
Another study sampled students at nine
evangelical colleges in an attempt to determine how effective these institutions were in providing plausibility structures for evangelical beliefs.
Why are they so often found behind pulpits and in administrative positions at these little
evangelical colleges sharing with young people the fruits of their knowledge of good and evil?
What respectable gay people do pales in comparison to recreational abortion practiced by young Christian girls at
evangelical colleges.
Earlier this year I was in charge of «debriefing» a small group of
evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless in inner - city Washington.
I have even visited
an evangelical college.
Many
evangelical colleges and universities, for example, are serious places with accomplished faculty.
So did Wellesley College, founded as
an evangelical college in the 1870s by friends of Dwight L. Moody.
The more than a hundred
evangelical colleges are more strongly Protestant.
True, some of them are even educated, yet «
evangelical colleges are just beginning to shake off this tradition, but can not yet be deemed cosmopolitan.»
A recent student demonstration over a Wheaton College chapel speaker's testimony on her religious and sexual conversion is the latest marker in the long - running debate over the way
evangelical colleges approach sexual identity.
The Wheaton College student newspaper, The Record, reports today that the influential
evangelical college's president, provost, and chaplain have removed their names from a letter to Muslim leaders that has attracted criticism in some quarters.
The notion that faith and learning can coexist has spread to many
evangelical colleges in the past few decades and could explain the growing popularity of Christian schooling (see Figure 2).
Dan Boone, president of Trevecca Nazarene University,
an evangelical college in Nashville, reports that students have responded with enthusiasm towards the notion of including climate concerns in the conservative political agenda.
In partnership with renowned executive search firm CarterBaldwin — whose legacy of success with
evangelical colleges and universities is well - known — the Board of Governors anticipates a wide - ranging and comprehensive search for the man or woman who can build on the trust and vision that marks President Kuhn's tenure.
Not exact matches
It has gained the support of Girlguiding UK, Mumsnet, the
Evangelical Alliance and the Royal
College of Midwives.
I saw the same glazed look of absolutism, certitude, and belligerence that I noted years earlier in the eyes of the
evangelicals I went to Bible
college with.
Dr. Henry, an associate professor of political science at Calvin
College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is the author of Politics for
Evangelicals.
The communal value of beer also appeals to Scott Sullivan, an alumnus of
evangelical Calvin
College who owns the Greenbush Brewing Company in Sawyer, Michigan.
The sad reality is that anti-Western, anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Israeli biases infuse the academic culture of many
evangelical Christian
college campuses.
I had a classmate at an
evangelical Christian
college who repeatedly defined faith as «stepping out of airplanes, knowing that God will catch you.»
Michael Lindsay, president of Gordon
College in Massachusetts, said that homosexuality is just one of a basket of issues that
evangelical schools are dealing with now for the first time.
OneWheaton, a group unaffiliated with the
college, wants to offer an alternative view on homosexuality from that of the
evangelical school.
About 200 LGBT and straight alumni from California's
evangelical Westmont
College co-signed a letter to the student newspaper suggesting they experienced «doubt, loneliness and fear due to the college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.
College co-signed a letter to the student newspaper suggesting they experienced «doubt, loneliness and fear due to the
college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.
college's stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.»
He founded FOCUS after his own experience: brought up in a Catholic family, he lost his faith in his teenage years — and rediscovered it through
Evangelical students at
college, who helped him to encounter Christ in the Scriptures.
More than 100
evangelical leaders gathered today at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism (BGCE) at Wheaton
College to discuss how American Christians can best respond to the current refugee crisis.
What I am hearing from you is describing Wheaton
College as a «beacon» and «one of the best
evangelical and protestant institutions in the world» and you implication is that David is a «fellow Christian» that is slandering the institution.
«As they participate in various causes, it is essential that they engage in and speak in such a way that faithfully represent the
college's
evangelical Statement of Faith.
A set of vigorous
evangelical theological
colleges exist, with theological leaders such as Anthony Thiselton, Jeremy Begbie, Elaine Storkey, Colin Buchanan, Christopher Cocksworth and Tina Baxter.
The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young
evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in
college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)
Ricky, As I graduated from conservative,
evangelical Bible
college and Seminary, I am familiar with the answers you provided.
Warren S Brown is a professor of psychology at the Fuller Theological Seminary (a multi-denominational
evangelical theological
college in the US) and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute.
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.
The
college's suit in the D.C. District Court will be one of the more high - profile actions by an
evangelical institution.
A surprising number of
evangelicals disagree, at least for campus ministries at public
colleges.
I was treasurer of my
college evangelical - fellowship group.
I went to an
evangelical Christian
college (Wheaton) and there were definitely hipsters all over the place.
Austin Channing Brown is one of my very favorite bloggers, whose journey as an
evangelical racial reconciler began in
college with an experience called Sankofa — a three - day bus trip exploring Civil Rights sites throughout the South.
A few weeks ago, almost 16,000
college students gathered for Urbana, an
evangelical conference promoting cross-cultural missions.
In a Mass celebrated in the Sistine Chapel with the
College of Cardinals on the day after his election, the Holy Father raised cautions about clerical ambition» a yellow warning flag that reflected the concerns he had expressed during the papal interregnum about «spiritual worldliness» corrupting the Church, and an unmistakable call to a more energetically
evangelical exercise of the priesthood and the episcopate.