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Purists and Pragmatists Unite!

Michael Frost — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 23:46:33 +0000

In Stanley Tucci’s cult film, Big Night, two Italian immigrant brothers from Abruzzo own a restaurant called Paradise, situated on the New Jersey Shore in the 1950s. The older brother, Primo (Tony Shalhoub) is a superb chef, but he’s a perfectionist who steadfastly resists his customers’ preference for Americanized Italian food. The younger brother, Secondo […]

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Coronavirus has unveiled the liturgical poverty of evangelicals

Michael Frost — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:09:22 +0000

If I have to go to another church service and turn to the people around me to discuss something-or-other, I think I’ll cry. Seriously, is that all we’ve got in this period of lockdown? Zoom breakouts and socially distanced groupwork? Without the singing or the preaching, evangelical church services just resemble a staff development day. […]

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What would Newbigin have said if he’d been invited to that White House dinner?

Michael Frost — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 02:43:48 +0000

Last week, President Donald Trump hosted a White House reception for 100 Evangelical leaders, including such figures as Paula White, Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., Darrell Scott, Robert Jeffress, Eric Metaxas, Ralph Reed, and Tony Perkins. The president was lavish in his praise for those leaders who had supported his presidency. And he was equally […]

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The Shadow of the Fear-vangelicals

Michael Frost — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 01:42:28 +0000

In the conservative Australian state of Queensland it was recently decided to remove any reference to a person’s height or gender on their driver’s licence. That’s actually no big deal to those of us from other states where height and gender hasn’t been included on our licences. But among the ultra-conservative evangelicals in that state it […]

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Evangelicals and the Left are as bad as each other

Michael Frost — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 21:03:15 +0000

Usually placed at polar opposites of the political spectrum, Evangelicals and the Left aren’t actually so different from each other really. They both want to change the world. They both believe they have a vision for a fair, equitable world of peace and harmony. And they both intensely dislike collaborating with anyone who disagrees with […]

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