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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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»!)
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.
As I have celebrated the leadership
of early
evangelical women, while speaking at
evangelical colleges, not everyone has been terribly pleased.
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.
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.
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.
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.
He was a graduate
of Lafayette
College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Garrett Biblical Institute (now Garrett -
Evangelical Theological Seminary).
I did a quick analysis
of Liberty University's Rawlings School
of Divinity and here are the results: Seminaries represented by at least one graduate degree: Westminster Notre Dame Gordon - Conwell Northwest Nazarene Moody Bible Institute Western Freewill Baptist Bible
College Arlington Bible
College Denver Seminary New Orleans Baptist BJU Seminary Baylor Fuller Asbury Talbot Los Angeles Baptist Capitol At least 2 degrees represented: Calvary BC William Tyndale Grand Rapids Regent At least 3 degrees represented: Baptist Bible
College At least 4 degrees represented: Trinity
Evangelical Southwestern Baptist TS 5 degrees: Grace Theological Seminary 8 degrees: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 9 degrees: Dallas Theological Seminary 10 degrees: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and finally, with a whopping 28 professors degrees: Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
Also, Wycliffe
College (
evangelical Anglican), associated with the University
of Toronto offers a fully online MTS as well.
The conclusion
of this essay, to appear in next month's issue, will set forth how the pattern
of change in liberal Protestant
colleges and universities outlined above seems now to be underway in
evangelical and Catholic institutions.
Richard Stein, an ordinand in his final year
of training for ministry, described the process as an enriching one that led him to embrace a more
evangelical theology than the one he had arrived with: «I came into
college with a fairly open view towards homosexuality, and even said I'd be happy to perform gay marriages.
Part
of the reason that liberal churches continue to survive, according to Hayward, is because a proportion
of the
evangelicals who go to theological
college end up adopting a liberal theology.
Dr. Harold O. J. Brown, Reformed Theological Seminary Mr. Charles Colson, Prison Fellowship Dr. Timothy George, Beeson Divinity School Dr. Kent Hill, Church
of the Nazarene Dr. Cheryl Bridges Johns, Church
of God School
of Theology The Rev. T. M. Moore, Cedar Springs Presbyterian Church Dr. Thomas Oden, Drew University Emeritus Dr. James Packer, Regent
College Dr. Sarah Sumner, Azusa Pacific University Dr. Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School Dr. John Woodbridge, Trinity
Evangelical Divinity School
Evangelical beliefs both were higher and remained stronger over the four years
of college in the more insular settings.
Back during
college, a good number
of my
evangelical friends were liberals, and we spent countless hours arguing about politics.
«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.
I have to say none
of this resonates with my experience in the «
Evangelical» International Christian
College here in Glasgow, Scotland.
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?
Mara Einstein
of Queen's
College, New York, is not at all sure about those «
evangelicals that are cozying up to the Jewish community and providing support for the state
of Israel.
Messiah
College, an
evangelical liberal arts institution with roots in the Men - nonite tradition, is sponsoring a project titled «Reforming the Center: Beyond the Two - Party System
of American Protestantism.»
Larry Eskridge is associate director
of the Institute for the Study
of American
Evangelicals at Wheaton
College in Illinois.
And he lifts up the singular role
of Calvin
College in gestating and nurturing an intellectual renascence in an
evangelical world that has typically oscillated between cool and hostile toward the life
of the mind.
In thinking about the public order, notes Turner, Calvin
College has drawn heavily on the legacy
of the Dutch politician Abraham Kuyper (1837 - 1920), but he agrees with Mark Noll's observation that recent
evangelical political thinkers have also borrowed «from the Anabaptist heritage, from the mainline Protestantism
of Reinhold Niebuhr, or from the neoconservative Catholicism
of Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and George Weigel.»
The Lilly Foundation funded a gathering
of a cross-section
of theological teachers and administrators from seminaries, university divinity schools and
colleges — Protestant and Catholic, mainline and
evangelical, well - known schools and those in the outback — to explore the subject.
«Because this is at some level a moral issue, and the religious community can not stand idly by and allow a moral issue like this to go without a comment,» said Carlos Campo, president
of Virginia's Regent University, the
college founded by
evangelical icon Pat Robertson.
Gayle recently spoke with D. Michael Lindsay, sociologist, newly appointed president
of Gordon
College, and author
of multiple books, including Faith in the Halls
of Power: How
Evangelicals Joined the American Elite.
LaSalle Street Church in the Near North neighborhood looks like a venerable downtown First Church, but it actually began in the 1960s when
evangelicals from institutions like Wheaton
College and Moody Bible Institute sought to create a grittier, more streetwise form
of church life.
She is Director
of Studies at the Institut Biblique de Nogent - sur - Marne on the outskirts
of Paris, a
College for Christian leaders in the
Evangelical tradition.
«The story here continues to be continuity in the strength
of evangelical support for GOP candidates, rather than greater intensity,» said Kevin den Dulk, political science professor at Calvin
College.
«The history
of American evangelicalism is critical in understanding how many things Clinton stands for that contradict the deeply held values
of politically engaged
evangelicals since the 1960s,» said Kristin Du Mez, a historian at Calvin
College and the author
of a forthcoming book about Hillary Clinton's faith.