Evangelicalism

“The authors conclude with a call to action: ‘American Protestantism needs to take a hard look in the mirror and ask itself why it has fallen so far from offering meaningful structures of authority, authentic experiences of holiness, and the kind of cultural leadership and intellectual sophistication that attracts the best and the brightest.’” -

“watching the film nevertheless ‘picked me up and transported me’ back in time to a time in my life when everything about life was simple, clear, uncomplicated, warm, meaningful, even exciting. God was real to us.” - Olson

“While most evangelicals, 63 percent, described themselves as politically conservative in the study… 24 percent described themselves as ‘in the middle’ or moderate, while 12 percent said they are liberal.” - Baptist Press

“We’ve come a long way since Mark Noll lamented the scandal of the evangelical mind in 1994. Or have we? Perhaps we have to go back to the 19th century before we can make progress in the 21st.” - Acton

“Fourteen percent of Muslims say that they are evangelical - it’s the same percentage as Roman Catholics. Even 12% of those identifying as nothing in particulars and Hindus say that they are evangelicals!” - Ryan Burge

Book review: “That’s one important takeaway from Land of My Sojourn: We are more than one conversation away from figuring out how to keep the ‘evangelical’ ship from sinking.” - Marvin Olasky

“Walter Kim is president of the National Association of Evangelicals….Glenn Hoburg serves as lead pastor of Grace Downtown Church, senior pastor of the Grace D.C. Network….Joel Woodruff is president of the C.S. Lewis Institute” - Juicy Ecumenism

“myriad facts undermine the tidiness of this story. Renn even mentions some of them, but his proposed framework doesn’t budge. In cultural analysis, this is usually evidence of a procrustean bed, where any facts not fitting the theory aren’t considered relevant.” - TGC

“For cultural evangelicals, they reject one leg of the stool—the behavioral piece. For them, evangelicalism is primarily about tribal belonging (and perhaps some vague belief in the teachings of the Bible).” - Ryan Burge

“The story of Acts 29’s trajectory will feel familiar to many of us outside of the network as well. Indeed it may serve as a small-scale model for much of the evangelical fracturing that began around 2015 and has continued through to the present.” - Mere Orthodoxy