Young Evangelicals Are Getting High
19. August 2013 4 Kommentare
Ein guter Einblick in die amerikanische Kirchenlandschaft, wie sich Erwartungen an evangelikale Gemeinden und die protestantischen Mainline-Kirchen ändern. Aufschlussreich auch die Diskussion dazu auf der UCC-Facebook-Fanpage.
A friend of mine attended a Christian college where almost all of the students, including her, grew up in non-denominational, evangelical Protestant churches. A few years after graduation, she is the only person in her graduating class who is not Roman Catholic, high Anglican or Lutheran. The town I live in has several „evangelical“ Protestant colleges: on Ash Wednesday you can tell who studies at them by the ash crosses on their foreheads.
Young Christians are going over to Catholicism and high Anglicanism/Lutheranism in droves, despite growing up in low Protestant churches that told them about Jesus. It’s a trend that is growing, and it looks like it might go that way for a while: people who grew up in stereotypical, casual evangelicalism are running back past their parents‘ church to something that looks like it was dug out of Europe a couple hundred years ago at least. It’s encouraged…
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