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Tag: defining Evangelical

  • What Scandal? Whose Conscience?

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    ChristianityToday.com (Books and Culture): What Scandal? Whose Conscience? by Dr. John Stackhouse. Some reflections on Ronald Sider's Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. Ronald Sider's sermon to American evangelicals, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, is entirely "seasonable," as all good jeremiads are. The Church is always entangled in worldliness of one form or another, and…

  • Evangelical: Can the ‘E-word’ be saved?

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    USA Today: Evangelical: Can the 'E-word' be saved? (HT: Presbyweb) Who's an evangelical? Until last year the answer seemed clear: Evangelical was the label of choice of Christians with conservative views on politics, economics and Biblical morality. Now the word may be losing its moorings, sliding toward the same linguistic demise that "fundamentalist" met decades…