The story of what happened on that January day in 1956 - first told in newsweeklies and Life magazine and then in numerous books and documentaries - became a primary narrative for
the young evangelical movement, reinforcing and illustrating to the world our core ideals.
Not exact matches
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.
Here the center of controversy has been another Fuller theologian, Paul K. Jewett, who also serves as dean of the
Young Life Institute offering theological education to the staff of a popular
evangelical youth
movement.
Exactly, the
evangelical movement in this country is on the rise, mostly
younger, and a VERY powerful lobby.
«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.
This is one reason why the annual March for Life is filled with
younger people — Catholic and
Evangelical and otherwise — the very people some told us just a few years ago would turn away from the pro-life
movement due to «fetus fatigue.»
Rhonda Kelley, co-editor of the New
Evangelical Women's Commentary, said this of
young Christian women today: «Not only do they not have a framework, but in many situations our women students have been raised by mothers who were a product of the feminist
movement.