{"id":89059,"date":"2020-01-30T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89059"},"modified":"2020-01-30T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:54:38","slug":"christianity-today-what-does-evangelical-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89059","title":{"rendered":"(Christianity Today) What Does \u2018Evangelical\u2019 Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">What does it mean to be evangelical? The term, without a doubt, is widely misunderstood and frequently misrepresented. In recent years, the term <span class=\"citation\">evangelical<\/span> has become highly politicized, invoked to describe a voting bloc or as a blanket label for those with conservative or, perhaps, fundamentalist views. Meanwhile, some from within the movement have dropped the label or left evangelicalism entirely, coining the monicker <span class=\"citation\">exvangelical<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\">Since its inception, <span class=\"citation\">Christianity Today<\/span> has been distinctly evangelical, bringing together a broad readership of Christians from across the denominational spectrum who find common ground in their shared faith in Christ, commitment to orthodoxy, and passion for proclaiming the gospel. Throughout the decades, CT has discussed what it means to be evangelical (such as in this 1965 <a class=\"intro\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/1965\/june-18\/who-are-evangelicals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cover story<\/a>). In recent years, the conversation has continued with renewed vigor. What is really at the heart of evangelical identity? Here\u2019s a sampling of articles from the past few years that dig deeper into what it means to be an evangelical Christian today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\nIn \u201cEvangelical Distinctives in the 21st Century,\u201d Mark Galli (CT\u2019s recently retired editor in chief) launched a series of articles meant to \u201carticulate what we [at <em>Christianity Today<\/em>] mean by <em>evangelicalism<\/em>\u2014and more importantly, why we continue to think that evangelicals are a people whom God still uses mightily to reform his church and touch the world with the grace and hope of the gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/january-web-only\/evangelical-distinctives.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What Does \u2018Evangelical\u2019 Mean? | Christianity Today <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G5P5tOusOw\">https:\/\/t.co\/G5P5tOusOw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5hEpmPRWAv\">pic.twitter.com\/5hEpmPRWAv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Moran (@CounselSpirit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CounselSpirit\/status\/1222651600810004481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does it mean to be evangelical? The term, without a doubt, is widely misunderstood and frequently misrepresented. In recent years, the term evangelical has become highly politicized, invoked to describe a voting bloc or as a blanket label for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89059\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,207,419,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-canada","category-evangelicals","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89059"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89062,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89059\/revisions\/89062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}