I was both surprised and disappointed to discover this
article in the New York Times. The topic is one that should probably stay
within Christian circles as the lost will undoubtedly misunderstand the issues
and turn to blasphemous mockery. The paper which in the same edition published
a piece on how a celebrity Sodomite couple spends their Sundays is a poor forum
indeed for a professing Christian to air internal grievance.
The 'Purity' issue has vexed me in the past and continues to
do so in the present. Something that was good and well intentioned was turned
into a harmful distraction and now a new generation sows seeds of confusion and
brings with it a potential for great harm.
But so it is with Post-War American Evangelicalism. The
movement once known as the New Evangelicalism was rooted in error from the
beginning and has now spawned many 'new' Evangelicalisms... confusion and I
fear apostasy. The fact that the author of the opinion piece is a managing
editor of Christianity Today is a rather stunning indictment of that magazine
and the Evangelical movement it represents.