Sentences with phrase «young evangelicals grew»

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.

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His trip to Israel — which included meetings with top Middle Eastern political leaders and a tour of Christian holy sites with 40 evangelical activists — has fueled growing speculation that the younger Paul is seriously considering a presidential bid of his own in 2016.

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

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.

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).

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.

And I think a lot of other young evangelicals are growing weary of those arguments too.

Even though it won't be released until June of 2010, my first book — a spiritual memoir about growing up in the conservative evangelical subculture only to question my faith as a young adult — is really starting to come to life.

Yet many public spokesmen for the religious right now tell Evangelicals — including Evangelical women who have spent their lives teaching Evangelical girls and young women to resist the sexualization of their identity and worth in a hook - up culture, and Evangelical men who learned at Promise Keepers rallies that racial reconciliation is a moral imperative — to «grow up,» to stop being «panty - waists.»

As a young evangelical myself, I confess I have grown tired... no, weary... of responding to comments like these with some honest suggestions for how my fellow evangelicals might avoid said retirement, only to be discounted and disparaged for believing the earth is more than 6,000 years old, for voting for Democrats from time to time, and for daring to serve communion to gays and lesbians.

But Evans is among a growing number of young evangelicals who are questioning the status quo promoted by these gatekeepers.»