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Critique - In this article by Kyle Roberts, in so many words, he explains the growing schism within the Evangelical ranks in regards to the political direction his faith has taken....and he is breaking from that. It highlights the discontent a growing number Evangelicals feel is taking place. It's a good insight into something I just never thought about.
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"Neil J. Young just splashed a lot of cold water on you.In a piece called “Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing,” he takes on Richard Mouw’s proclamation that, ““Despite Trumpism, I’m not quitting evangelicalism.” Mouw, former president of Fuller Seminary, has been one of those alternative voices within evangelicalism — calling for a moderate style of irenic, ecumenical, and socially conscious evangelicalism.
Evangelicals like Mouw have stayed in the institutions of evangelicalism, trying to be seasoning voices from within, and working to complexify the definition of an “evangelical.”
Recently, Russell Moore has played a similar role within the (mainly fundamentalist, now) Southern Baptist Convention. His very public criticisms of Donald Trump, his advocacy for racial justice, and his insistence that freedom of religion counts for Muslims, too, are putting him at odds now with many of his own Southern Baptist constituents, some of whom are threatening to withdraw their support from the ethics and policy agency he leads. But, at least on my very casual social media observations, I’m guessing a number of younger Southern Baptist leaders look more to Moore for ideological leadership, than to Robert Jeffress, Jack Graham, and the like. But for those younger, perhaps more socially-conscious conservatives, the numbers may not work in their favor." - Source
Evangelicals like Mouw have stayed in the institutions of evangelicalism, trying to be seasoning voices from within, and working to complexify the definition of an “evangelical.”
Recently, Russell Moore has played a similar role within the (mainly fundamentalist, now) Southern Baptist Convention. His very public criticisms of Donald Trump, his advocacy for racial justice, and his insistence that freedom of religion counts for Muslims, too, are putting him at odds now with many of his own Southern Baptist constituents, some of whom are threatening to withdraw their support from the ethics and policy agency he leads. But, at least on my very casual social media observations, I’m guessing a number of younger Southern Baptist leaders look more to Moore for ideological leadership, than to Robert Jeffress, Jack Graham, and the like. But for those younger, perhaps more socially-conscious conservatives, the numbers may not work in their favor." - Source
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Critique - In this article by Kyle Roberts, in so many words, he explains the growing schism within the Evangelical ranks in regards to the political direction his faith has taken....and he is breaking from that. It highlights the discontent a growing number Evangelicals feel is taking place. It's a good insight into something I just never thought about.
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