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  • Evangelicals better than mainliners at retaining youth, researcher says

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    Associated Baptist Press: Evangelicals better than mainliners at retaining youth, researcher says DURHAM, N.C. (ABP) — Evangelical churches do a better job than mainline churches in keeping their young people in the faith, probably because they invest more money in youth ministry, says a Duke University professor who studies characteristics of American congregations. Mark Chaves,…

  • Disconnect: Mainliners and Evangelicals in “Emergent” Conversation

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    I have been around the emergent conversation for about eight years now. In the first few years, my contact was mainly isolated to an emergent group (Jacob's Well) meeting in our church building. Over the last four years, I have read more widely, attended an Emergent YM conference, hung out at Glorieta, NM, and involved…

  • Emergent (Part 5)

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    I have written about my Meyers-Briggs NT Rationalist experience in the church in the last two posts. I have also speculated that the number of N.F. Idealists alienated from Evangelical institutions are probably greater than the number of N.T.s. Where did these alienated intuitive types go? Some of these types departed Evangelical institutions and started…