He also says popular church structures are clearly insufficient for forming mature disciples and new church models are desperately needed. Kinnaman reveals brand new data about the state of the church and how the pandemic has revealed wide discontent among churchgoers with their congregations. Then, the president of Barna Group, David Kinnaman, joins Skye to launch a new reoccurring segment-Barna Briefs. Will 2022 be any different, or will the sorting of the entire culture into Red and Blue tribes continue? And how wide will the rift between classical and cultural evangelicals get? The Salvation Army reversed course on racial sensitivity, and female scholars faced a backlash for exposing Christian nationalism and patriarchy. Voices advocating for women and people of color within the SBC left the denomination. Those opposed to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter responded by labeling empathy a sin. Were our expectations met? Phil and Skye look back on the year when the evangelical empire dug in its heels. military, carry responsibility for these deaths, which leads to a wider discussion about the ethics of war in general, the way drones may change Americans’ view of war in the future, and whether the invasion of Iraq was justifiable to begin with.Ģ:40 - Kevin DeYoung editorial on Christian commentators Ģ9:54 - Drone attacks, civilian casualties, and ethics of war Īfter the mess that was 2020, we had such high hopes for 2021. French explains why legally the terrorists, not the U.S. military underreporting civilian casualties from drone attacks in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. Then, they turn their attention to the remarkable NY Times report about the U.S. DeYoung says these necessary corrections are better left to pastors rather than “professional writers, academics, and full-time commentators.” David and Skye respond to DeYoung’s editorial by explaining the good, and bad, reasons so few pastors are speaking prophetically in America today. In a recent editorial, Kevin DeYoung took aim at Christian commentators, including David French, for criticizing the social and political hypocrisies within white evangelicalism.
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