![]() ![]() How are evangelicals to navigate these storms while remaining faithful to biblical truth and Christian compassion? How can we balance the sharing of the gospel with the call to promote justice for the widow and the orphan? How can we engage in true Christian dialogue without immediately pigeonholing our fellow evangelicals politically, or questioning their “true” motives, or holding them to a narrow litmus test of orthodoxy? The issues of gay marriage, abortion, critical race theory, and transgenderism, enflamed by the COVID-19 quarantine and the political and sociological fallout from the death of George Floyd, the violent demonstrations that followed in its wake, the mainstreaming of the Black Lives Matter movement, the contested election of 2020, Donald Trump’s inflammatory reaction to it, and Biden’s Equality Act, have rocked the evangelical world to its core. ![]() ![]() I type these words in the shadow of the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention, a meeting that seems to have exacerbated rather than healed the wounds within the evangelical church. The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims, by Rebecca McLaughlin (103 pages, The Gospel Coalition, 2021) How are evangelicals to navigate the current storms while remaining faithful to biblical truth and Christian compassion? How can we engage in true Christian dialogue without immediately pigeonholing our fellow evangelicals politically, or questioning their “true” motives, or holding them to a narrow litmus test of orthodoxy? ![]()
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