Thoughtful Reflections on Faith and Life
One of my favourite Christian thinkers is C.S. Lewis. And I am not alone. Many evangelical Christians absolutely love Lewis. It is interesting to note that I never heard of C.S. Lewis growing up as an Anglican, despite Lewis being a dedicate Anglican. It is among evangelicals that Lewis finds a home. But why? In … Read More “How Evangelical Was C.S. Lewis?” »
When evangelicalism, as we know it today, emerged from fundamentalism in the twentieth century, there was some semi-unity. Yes there were various denominations within evangelicalism that had different views on charismatic gifts, women in leadership, eschatology, and a few other issues, but there was still one tent under which they co-existed. I see a change … Read More “Fracture Lines Within Evangelicalism” »
I recently did a Twitter poll that stated that not all Christians were evangelicals. While some people disagreed with me, there were others that misunderstood me. They asked questions such as: “How can you be a Christian and not share the gospel, i.e. do evangelism?” While I was referring to a tradition within Christianity, evangelical … Read More “What’s the Difference Between Evangelicalism and Evangelism?” »
I was raised in a liberal mainline church. I will admit that during the majority of my time in that congregation, I did not take my faith that seriously. It was while attending that church that I ended up becoming an atheist. After I returned to faith, I also returned to that congregation for a … Read More “Evangelical Christianity is Not the Only True Christianity” »
I continue to hold onto the label ‘evangelical’ even though I know there is a lot of baggage that is accompanied with that. I consider myself to be a moderate, which can be lonely. I’m too conservative for my liberal friends and too liberal for my conservative friends. It is for this reason that I … Read More “Restless Faith – Review” »
I have seen numerous posts recently calling into question the continued use of the label “evangelical.” Is it time for evangelicalism to come to an end? Some of the concerns seem to be the ties between many evangelicals and some questionable people/activities/ideas. Certain people are ready to reject the label “evangelical” because some evangelical helped … Read More “Why I Still Identify as an Evangelical” »
Carl R. Trueman, The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2011. E-Book. It’s been more than fifteen years now since Mark Noll published his successful The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind in which the (then) Wheaton professor criticized evangelicals for its intellectual obscurantism. Evangelicalism’s preoccupation with dispensationalism and six-day creationism, he argued, … Read More “The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind” »
The definition of evangelical is one of the hardest things to pin down. It has a long and complex history. In the United States its beginnings were closely connected to Billy Graham and Christianity Today. I am not so interested in the history (at least not for this post), I want to know what the … Read More “What is an Evangelical?” »
