Losing Their Edge

You might enjoy reading Why Evangelicalism Is Falling Apart, at Mere Comments. Here's the first paragraph:

Evangelicalism’s original basis of corporate identity was coherent only as long as it was fundamentalism--a conservative Protestant alliance based on a common confession of the "fundamentals of the faith," against Protestant liberalism. When it became Evangelicalism, an essentially apologetic movement with an orientation toward what is now called inclusiveness and a deadly fear of giving offense to the intellectual establishment from which its intelligentsia sought its accreditation, it immediately lost its original coherence.

Comments

[Dave]

Mere Comments is also one of Beliefnet's Blog Heaven blogs. BYI, Blog Heaven is still plugging along; I get 10 or 15 hits per day from the Beliefnet site, maybe 5% of my site traffic.

[J. Stapley]

Thanks for the link, Dave. I found that conversation Fascinating on many levels. First, it is validating to find similar critisms made by our orthodox brothers to those that I have thought.

It is also an excellent excersize in self perception. I can now empathize a bit better to the ocassional non-mormon who visits the nacle.