Sentences with phrase «many younger evangelicals»

But in recent years I have come to appreciate the fact that many promising younger evangelical scholars got their start in a serious commitment to the life of the mind by responding positively to the LaHaye - type call to intellectual warfare.

I suspect that you can draw a line between more traditional evangelicals and the so called «young evangelicals» based on how they want to read Genesis.

There's a growing tendency, however, among some younger evangelicals to celebrate their freedom without discipline.

And it should not be so counterintuitive that young evangelicals such as myself prefer theology rooted in tradition to a spirituality waffling in relativism.

Isn't that why young evangelicals have rushed out and purchased The Book of Common Prayer?

He gives shout - outs to young evangelical leaders in major speeches.

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.

If you have spent any time with young Evangelical Christians in these first decades of the twenty - first century, you will know that this verse from Micah is the one they are most likely to quote from the whole of Scripture.

But Obama's public piety has helped him bond with young evangelical leaders, who are less tied to the GOP than their parents» generation.

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

Cameron, I think you were mentioning earlier about how younger evangelicals are more progressive.

Unfortunately, a lot of young evangelicals grew up with the assumption that Christianity and evolution can not mix, that we have to choose between our faith in Jesus and accepted science.

To the uninitiated, Michael Flournoy's testimony is hard to distinguish from that of any young evangelical convert.

He's definitely got this young evangelical on board!

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»!)

Are young evangelicals rejecting the «myth of a Christian nation»?

«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.

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

Beginning life as a convinced young Evangelical, he gradually adopted the Tractarian High Churchmanship promoted by Keble and Newman, before embracing, with all possible fervour, the Ultramontane, Italianate Catholicism introduced into England by Cardinal Wiseman.

The same sociological forces that prevent evangelical leaders from joining the conversation also exert tremendous pressure on younger evangelicals.

U.S. News & World Report has a great article about what many see is a return to liturgy, ritual, and symbol among young evangelicals.

As I've spoken with young evangelicals across the country, I've found that many of them are rediscovering the Church's ancient commitment to ritual.

The U.S. News & World Report article also presents some theories as to why young evangelicals are drawn to tradition.

Maybe young evangelicals like me avoid talking about abortion because it's just not as cool as talking about sex trafficking and immigration.

If our young Evangelical would happen to visit a Lutheran church, long before he hears about theological differences, he will «feel» that the experience of church and spirituality is different in the Lutheran church.

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.

As a result, the past decade has seen a precipitous decline in young evangelical identification with the Republican Party.

George just posted a very interesting (personal) appraisal o the evolution of young evangelicals, and rather than try to appreciate his view point, some are downright nasty — just because he mentions God and Jesus and Christianity in his essay.

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

I had a meeting with the Bishop of London and I just said, «Bishop, send us to the part of London where you can't get any young evangelicals to go to and show us a church you're going to close.

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.

Now it is far from obvious that the Bible explicitly teaches feminism, yet the young evangelical will feel that he or she has no right to be a feminist unless «the Bible tells me so.»

Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.

What is disturbing is the biblicistic, «let - the - chips - fall - where - they - may» attitude often present in the young evangelicals» literature.

What can this mean, since there is no uniformity of political opinion among young evangelicals?

Obviously, young evangelicals will do a better job of dealing with the inevitable practical factors if they consciously recognize the presence of such factors.

She says her research revealed that more than 60 % of young evangelicals support more governmental programs to aid the needy, as well as more emphasis on economic justice and environmental protection issues.

Given the fundamentalist personal background of many young evangelical writers, this unconscious hangover of biblicism is not too surprising.

The young evangelical approaches the problem like this: «Feminism [for example] is true; the Bible teaches the truth; therefore the Bible must teach feminism.»

Young evangelicals may take such an approach to pacifism, unilateral disarmament, «no - nukism,» multinational corporate exploitation, or world hunger.

Young evangelicals seem to offer a new cause with vigor and conviction.

And today in the literature of the «young evangelicals,» one may still find the inference, if not the outright assertion, that evangelicals have a superior approach to social action.

At any rate, the outcome will provide the young evangelical «righteous remnant» (the explicit terms, incidentally, in which they see themselves) with an excellent opportunity to «go the way of the cross,» paying the cost of radical discipleship.

«Worldly» considerations like pragmatic or political realities (the real though hidden origins of the young evangelical's own position) must bow to exegetical arguments.

New loyalties are emerging as such insights are combined with the values young evangelicals find in the biblical interpretations of William Stringfellow, Jacques Ellul, John Howard Yoder, Dale Brown and others who do not share the «inerrancy» assumption.

Young evangelicals have been overwhelmed to discover the extent of biblical material related to themes of social justice — material largely ignored in the theology and writings of their elders.

King, who calls himself «politically homeless,» says that while both parties talk about faith and invoke Scripture, he and other young evangelicals he knows sense an undercurrent of political gamesmanship in all the religious talk.

Eighty percent of young evangelicals have engaged in premarital s.ex, according to a new video from the National Association of Evangelicals.