In the late nineteenth century two powerful forces sweeping across America changed the Protestant church forever. First, the industrial revolution unleashed the forces of urbanization and industrialization. More and more people, including women and children, began to work in factories with long working hours and intolerable conditions. Poverty rose dramatically. Second, modernism seized hold of... Continue Reading

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