by Pete Enns | Aug 25, 2017 | Christian faith and life, Evangelicalism
Below are the results of the 2011 Barna survey that highlight six primary reasons why young adults who had been regular churchgoers left after age 15. All of these reasons resonate with me on some level as a father of 3 adult offspring, a Christian college professor,...
by Pete Enns | Apr 25, 2017 | Evangelicalism
I posted last week on “3 things I would like to see (at least some) Evangelical leaders stop saying about biblical scholarship.” Today’s post is about rhetoric I have heard from Evangelical leaders when defending a biblical position. Though these...
by Pete Enns | Apr 20, 2017 | Evangelicalism
Now and then, and more often than I would like, I come across sweeping public claims made by Evangelical leaders about the state of modern critical biblical scholarship—namely that it is on life support and can safely be brushed aside. These claims may be genuinely...
by Pete Enns | Aug 11, 2016 | Christian faith and life, Evangelicalism, Uncategorized
The 2011 Barna survey on American Christianity published “Six Reasons Young Christians Leave Church.” And here they are. I read through them and I think to myself, “Yup. Yup. Uh huh. That one, too. And that one.” These ring utterly true to me from my experience,...
by Pete Enns | Jul 15, 2016 | Christianity and evolution, Evangelicalism, nature of the Bible, Uncategorized
Why is there such tension between evangelicals and evolution? The real problem isn’t evolution. There is a deeper problem: evangelicals tend to expect from the Bible what it simply isn’t set up to deliver. Too often evangelicals start out the evolution discussion...
by Pete Enns | May 9, 2016 | academic freedom, Evangelicalism, Inspiration and Incarnation, Uncategorized
Mark Noll’s 1995 book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind hit a raw nerve when he declared “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” He argued that Evangelical scholarship had a minimal presence in doing...
