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A new generation of Evangelical Christians is vulnerable to liberalizing trends in the U.S. church, according to a young new author who pushes back at a culture in which not giving offense is prized more than telling uncomfortable truths.
In Distortion: How the New Christian Left is Twisting the Gospel and Damaging the Faith, author Chelsen Vicari, in her first book, challenges the Evangelical Left and names names. She offers readers a glimpse into the world of a typical Evangelical Millennial who is spiritually and emotionally targeted on Christian campuses, youth groups, and campus ministries by a growing liberal movement cloaked in Evangelical terminology.
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I’ve read the first three chapters and I’m hooked. What’s struck me the most so far is her making the point that a person’s faith can be undermined in a church or campus ministry setting as much as it can be in a secular environment. The book and the author are deserving of support.
The Evangelical church is repeating almost exactly the dance steps that the PCUSA and other liberal mainline denominations danced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For anyone who knows ecclesiastical history, this is very disheartening. We are now beginning to see the issues of pan sexual liberation bubbling up in evangelical churches, and outlets like Christianity Today willingly giving them a voice and thus aiding them in their agenda. We’re also seeing a serious interest in left wing theologians like Barth and Pannenberg and Tillich.
Give us a generation and we’ll be right back where we started.