For the last 5 or 6 years I’ve mostly been known for causing mayhem in the evangelical blogosphere, so when I received an invitation to spread some of that content here as a representative of the “evangelical” viewpoint, I was sort of stunned. Continue Reading »
Though still relatively young, I would like to think that I’ve grown and matured in my understanding and perspective on faith, theology and culture. I went through a phase in my life a few years ago when I was extremely particular about the views with which I associated myself. I wanted to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Jesus Movement began in evangelizing the street, but it ended in evangelizing the . . . . Continue Reading »
It is time for evangelicals to recover a fully biblical appreciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her role in the history of salvation—and to do so precisely as evangelicals. The question, of course, is how to do that. Can the evangelical reengagement with the wider Christian tradition . . . . Continue Reading »
EPISCOPAL STRAIGHT TALKLast month I discussed the signs of an emerging new leadership within the conference of Catholic bishops. Such signs were evident in the June meeting of the bishops, where efforts to evade or delay taking a clear position on pro-abortion Catholics in public life were . . . . Continue Reading »
The Evangelical Mind TodayMark NollTen years after the publication of The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind , I remain largely unrepentant about the book’s historical arguments, its assessment of evangelical strengths and weaknesses, and its indictment of evangelical intellectual efforts, though I . . . . Continue Reading »
With the death of Sydney Ahlstrom and the retirements of Robert Handy and Martin Marty from the classroom, Mark Noll has surely become our leading teacher-historian of American Christianity. George Marsden may be his superior in charting the history of American fundamentalism and the Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
How Now Shall We Live?by charles colson and nancy pearceytyndale, 580 pages, $22.99 In 1993, when Washington Post writer Michael Weisskopf issued his notorious declaration that evangelicals are “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command,” conservative Protestant intellectuals were quick to . . . . Continue Reading »
In the March issue of First Things , Benton Johnson, Dean R. Hoge, and Donald A. Luidens addressed the question of the decline of mainline churches. One basic question, however, remains unanswered, namely, how do we deal with the issue of truth in a pluralistic society? In other words, after the . . . . Continue Reading »
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. Though they all had their own thoughts about what caused the poverty they had witnessed, . . . . Continue Reading »
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