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Evangelicalism’s Winter?
Vol. 17, No. 6 • Nov/Dec 2008
Confessing Protestants have an uneasy and uncertain relationship with evangelicalism. For many of us, evangelical churches have been part of our past: who hasn’t been baptized in a Southern Baptist church? Some of you reading this issue may still be working for reform within evangelical churches. Many others, however, have left evangelicalism looking for something […]
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Confessing Protestants have an uneasy and uncertain relationship with evangelicalism. For many of us, evangelical churches have been part of our past: who hasn’t been baptized in a Southern Baptist church? Some of you reading this issue may still be working for reform within evangelical churches. Many others, however, have left evangelicalism looking for something […]
Setting Up the Sheep for Heresy
For reasons too complex (and tedious) to detail here, I have been thinking lately about the twin phenomena of evangelical homosexuality and egalitarianism. (1) For the uninitiated, these novel doctrines attempt to maintain the essentials of the Christian faith, such as salvation through Christ and biblical authority, while at the same time denying historic teachings […]
Is Evangelical Anglicanism Dead?
During my initial ordination interview for postulants, I was foolish enough to tell the absolute truth about my beliefs. Without hesitation, I proclaimed my evangelical leanings and my primary assessor was not at all pleased. “A dying movement!” he snarled. With these words-or so I thought-my hopes for “Holy Orders” were destroyed along with ordination […]
To Be or Not To Be
I hope that non-Reformed readers will indulge me in a consideration of the relationship of our tradition to the movement known today as American evangelicalism. After all, I think that much of what I have to say here will apply to other traditions. In Reformed and Presbyterian quarters today, as in other traditions, a range […]
The American “Gospel”
Whenever I see Pastor Joel Osteen’s church on television, my mind goes back to a beautiful spring day in Houston during my graduate studies at Rice University. The enormous building in which Lakewood Church now meets on the Southwest Freeway was once a basketball arena used for many purposes. That day, my wife and I […]
What is the Future of Evangelicalism?
As the articles in this issue of Modern Reformation suggest, evangelicalism is experiencing a change in seasons: former evangelical statesmen are passing from the scene, new evangelicals don’t seem to rally around the same issues and ideas as their forefathers, and it’s increasingly difficult (if it was ever really possible) to identify clearly what an […]
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The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Be Protestant
What are Protestant denominations actually like, and why are the stereotypes of each so popular?
10 Overlooked Bible Characters Who Shaped Redemptive History
“Faith is an unclean hand that lays hold of the righteous robes of Jesus.” Adriel Sanchez and Producers Aaron Simon and Arianna Quiroz explore the stories of the characters you may not have heard of in Sunday school and explain how these overlooked figures’ stories can encourage the church today.
How Should Protestants Read the Church Fathers?
“Moreover, they unjustly set the ancient fathers against us (I mean the ancient writers of a better age of the church) as if in them they had supporters of their own impiety. If the contest were to be determined by patristic authority, the tide of victory — to put it very modestly — would turn […]
Did Constantine Change the Day of Worship?
Did Constantine change the church’s day of worship from Saturday to Sunday? Pastor Adriel Sanchez addresses this theory that has long been stated online, demonstrating that the Christian practice has been to gather for worship on Sunday, the Lord’s Day, since the first century.
