by Ron Henzel | Oct 25, 2018 | Abortion, Donald Trump, Evangelical, Evangelicalism, Politics, Sociology, Uncategorized
It’s been a long time since the word “evangelical” meant anything specific in common currency. Back in 1971, long before it became a focus of pollsters like Gallup,1Cf. “5 Things to Know About Evangelicals in America,” by Frank Newport,...
by Ron Henzel | Oct 10, 2018 | Free Speech, Freedom, Offended, Offending Words, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives
I would be very interested to know what the weather was like in Washington, DC on Thursday, May 22, 1856. It had been an unusually long winter across the Midwest and Eastern seaboard of the United States that year. The capital itself had seen remarkably cold...
by Ron Henzel | Aug 2, 2018 | Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms, Emerging Church
For most of the 20th century, American evangelicals became increasingly out-of-touch with something that served as one of the most important sources of theological cohesiveness for the previous 1,700 years: the historic creeds. Many Bible-believing Christians still...
by Ron Henzel | May 17, 2018 | Bebbington Quadrilateral, Carl Trueman, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Evangelical, Mark Noll
In 1980 I was a newlywed working as a bank coin teller. There were a lot of silver coins in circulation back then, and the price of silver was skyrocketing toward an all-time high. At one point I sold roll of silver dimes (face value: $5.00) to a coin dealer across...
by Ron Henzel | Nov 9, 2017 | Forgiveness, Genocide, Gun Control, Mass Shootings
In the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting, this time at a church in Texas, a journalist posed a question to me and several other of her Facebook friends who are engaged in one or another type of Christian ministry: “How do you balance forgiveness and...
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