Author Archives: Chaplainmike

Meet The Evangelical Untouchables

Michael Patton is the director of Reclaiming the Mind Ministries and is one of the teachers on The Theology Program. Tony Kummer is on staff at a Southern Baptist Church in the midwest and blogs at SBC Voices. Ryan Couch is a Calvary Chapel pastor in Oregon, and blogs at Small Town Preacher. Kirk CowellContinue reading “Meet The Evangelical Untouchables”

Riffs: 03:15:09: How the Left Perceives Evangelicals: Change? Really?

I rarely write about politics, but this “Riff” is a bit of an intersection between evangelicalism and the left-leaning media. Pam Chamberlain’s piece on young Evangelicals shifting leftward first appeared in the proudly left journal, The Public Eye. It’s reproduced here on AlterNet. The first thing I want to say is that, until recently, I’veContinue reading “Riffs: 03:15:09: How the Left Perceives Evangelicals: Change? Really?”

The Limbaughization of Evangelicals

(I usually don’t cross post with the podcast, but this is an exception. If I’ve missed a great source on Rush’s spiritual views, I welcome correction.) For several years, I was a devoted Rush Limbaugh listener. I rarely missed a day. I haven’t listened to him much since Clinton left the White House, but IContinue reading “The Limbaughization of Evangelicals”

Postcards From My Spring Break

Yes, this past week was my spring break. That’s why I had the time to do interviews, moderate comments, answer emails, etc. If all this had happened any other time, I’d have been at work or preparing sermons, etc. So “Thank You, Lord!” for the time to enjoy my 15 minutes. Here are some ofContinue reading “Postcards From My Spring Break”

Internet Monk Radio Podcast #130

This week: Summary of the “Evangelical Collapse” story; Why all the hostility over the same post 7 years later?; The “Limbaughization” of Evangelicals. Our sponsors are: 60 Ways to Leave Your Mother…Alone. A comic by Michael Buckley. New Reformation Press. New music and DVDs. Want to be an IM advertiser? Want over 450,000+ unique visitorsContinue reading “Internet Monk Radio Podcast #130”

The Coming Evangelical Collapse: A Statistical Review by Michael Bell

The Eclectic Christian, Michael Bell, is a long-time IM reader and commenter. He can also count all his digits, which puts him way past me when it comes to the statistical evaluation of the ARIS data and the Evangelical Collapse posts. Welcome Michael as an IM guest blogger and take note of his conclusions. MichaelContinue reading “The Coming Evangelical Collapse: A Statistical Review by Michael Bell”

iMonk 101: Why Do They Hate Us?

One of the first big splashes this blog made was when this post (2002!) made it into the atheist blogosphere. I got about a hundred notes from atheists saying “Thanks.” I’ve always agreed with what I wrote here, and I’ve always felt it was important. I also know that many culture-warring Christians will say thisContinue reading “iMonk 101: Why Do They Hate Us?”

iMonk 101: One Stock That Needs To Drop

UPDATE: Associated Baptist Press took out the numbers that apply to Baptists and confirmed by warnings about the impending generational horizon. So let’s move on….back to some of the predecessors of this little furor. From October of ’08, this was a shorter piece on evangelicalism called “One Stock That Needs To Drop.” If you enjoyedContinue reading “iMonk 101: One Stock That Needs To Drop”

The Original Coming Evangelical Collapse Posts

UPDATE: I’ve been linked at Out of Ur, GetReligion and all over today. I want to say two things to all of them: 1) The CSM piece was on the commentary page. It is commentary, not news or research. 2) I did not say that evangelicalism is dying. I said it is going to declineContinue reading “The Original Coming Evangelical Collapse Posts”