Posted in evangelicalism on 12 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since co-teaching a course last year on contemporary evangelicalism, I was very interested to come across The Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment, a publication only five days old that attempts the very tricky task of defining evangelicalism and describing what an evangelical presence in the world should look like.
The manifesto [...]
Posted in evangelicalism, public religion on 23 February 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m starting to wonder about the possibility of a very counterintuitive truth. What if we evangelicals are among the more secular folk around? Even as a I write it, this is a question that seems odd. Evangelicals are known for their historical opposition to secularism and evangelicalism (if it can be defined) [...]
Posted in church, evangelicalism, theology on 31 May 2007 | 20 Comments »
A couple of ideas have been bouncing around for the past couple of weeks, mainly because of my participation in a class on Eastern Christianity as well as my attendance at the annual meeting of the Canadian Evangelical Theological Society. Both of these experiences brought the question of what role tradition plays (or ought [...]
Posted in evangelicalism on 2 May 2006 | 4 Comments »
The term ‘evangelical Christian’ is one that not a lot of people are eager to identify with these days. Whether it is the endless parade of televangelists or misguided politicians who hitch their wagons to the evangelical cause or the utter distaste we have for ‘fundamentalism’ in of all varieties, there is a certain [...]
