Conservative Evangelicalism

Karen Prior and David French assess the future of the evangelical movement & highlight a rising generation of evangelicals frustrated by a focus on politics rather than gospel.

Thomas Kidd: Heaven won’t be a Republican Party reunion. Our churches should be crystal clear about that spiritual reality.

Carson chats with MBTS President, Dr. Jason Allen, about his conversion, the state of evangelicalism, and his perspective on quasi-retirement.

In this excerpt from his little book Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance,¹ Os Guinness puts his finger on a key issue in the conservative Christian sub-culture. His comments are even more interesting when you consider the book was published in 2003:

New Yorker: The New Evangelical Moral Minority

Julie Roys: So, this is what evangelicalism has become. On the Left, we are abandoning orthodoxy for gay rights and solidarity with other religions. And on the right, we are an angry mob, overlooking sin and vice for the sake of our righteous indignation.

In 2005, Phil Johnson eviscerated modern evangelicalism’s obsession with trends and fads: “The concept of evangelicalism has been expanded to become all-inclusive. The word evangelical has lost its historic meaning. These days it means everything—and it therefore means nothing.” (mp3) (PDF transcript)