February 21st, 2009
Something’s happening in American Evangelicalism. We are waking up from a stupor. We are attempting to fear our founder more than we fear our movement’s group think. Because He is asserting his proprietary rights over His brand–a brand which has been the subject of trademark infringement for too long. We are standing up to be counted as conscientious objectors to the evangelical culture war that has been distracting us from the evangelical mission.
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January 5th, 2009
Evangelical, what’s in a name? It’s funny how you get these names. I don’t recall signing up to be an evangelical. It just happened. Well, not quite. I was a Jesus freak. But you can’t escape history, especially not with a religion whose founder was God coming into history and wearing it like a tool apron. Who would want to take off what he put on? So you find yourself or that community of people that you’re part of, I don’t know, slowing down just long enough to let history catch up with you.
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