Are Churches Secularizing America? (We’re talking about evangelicals here!!)
So while evangelicals are often quick to launch public protests against “secular humanists” for diminishing the role of God in American society, it would seem that the more likely source of secularization is the church itself. I am not claiming that evangelicalism is “atheistic” or even “deistic” in principle, but that in practice it is... Continue Reading
Where is Evangelicalism Headed?
I have noted before that Evangelicalism generally is once again following the culture into liberalism. We can see this theologically, of course, with the emergence of new strain of higher criticism in the “post-evangelical” theology in our seminaries; we can see it in the church in our post-modern/emergent churches which are beginning to look and... Continue Reading
Dr. Steve Jones on Palin, Pentecostals, and Evangelicals
Editor’s Note: The "V&V Q&A" is an e-publication from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove CityCollege. Each issue will present an interview with an intriguing thinker or opinion-maker that we hope will prove illuminating to readers everywhere. In this latest edition, Dr. Paul Kengor, the executive director of the Center for Vision... Continue Reading
Reinventing Liberalism
For some time now I’ve been thinking that if I were to write a book on current trends in Reformed and Evangelical theology, it would be entitled Reinventing Liberalism. If one were to trace the course of evangelicalism as it has stumbled along from the days of Fundamentalist/Modernist controversy and the split with the... Continue Reading