And I think a lot of
other young evangelicals are growing weary of those arguments too.
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.
Not exact matches
I generally write with an
evangelical audience in mind, but as
others have rightly noted, it's not just
evangelical churches losing
young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.
Evangelical leaders constantly warn that
young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and
others wonder how
evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.
I have attneded
Evangelical churches and
other Evangelical meetings like
Young Life back in the day, and the people there had absolutely no problem cheerfully consigning people to hell in the absence of any atheists or
other critics at all.
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.
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.
The culmination of a long process of thinking and rethinking can be seen in the May / June issue of The
Other Side, a
young -
evangelical activist magazine.
No one's faith journey looks exactly the same, and there are many
young evangelicals simply trying to faithfully follow their own conscience and conviction without identifying with one group or the
other.
Just the
other day I picked up a book by a
young evangelical who criticized postmodernism and wrote, «Still worse is deconstructionism, which says, «It's not that I don't know the truth, it's that I just don't care.
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.