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Future of Faith in America: Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism has rich roots in American history, but many have questioned the vitality of its future. While the Pew data caused many to wring their hands over the future of the Evangelical communities in America, the religious landscape also kindles a great deal of hope. What do the data really say? Where do Evangelicals see real opportunities? What are the challenges that jeopardize growth?

These essays address a wide variety of themes and are loosely grouped around issues of wisely reading the data, of focusing in hope on multiethnic growth and Millennials, of learning from the past and returning to roots, and of a renewed calling to mission.

This topic is part of our summer symposium on the Future of Faith in America. For more resources visit our Future of Faith main page.

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America’s Famine: Roughly 25 Percent, 80 Million, Are...

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Evangelicalism Outside the Gate

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What Kind Of Evangelical Am I?

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THE REALITIES BEHIND THE DATA

The Nones and the Nons: Surprising Similarities?

Could it be that the rise in nondenominationalism is a...

Reports of Demise Are Overblown

The clamor about the imminent death of traditional faith,...

Three Futures for Evangelicalism in America

The mission force is now living in and engaging a very...

For Evangelicalism, the Sky Is Not Falling but the Ground...

The mission force is now living in and engaging a very...

Institutional and Theological Instabilities Threaten...

Conservative Evangelicalism seems to have invested more...

Facing Facts About the Future of the Church in America

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The Fragmentation of Evangelicalism

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A MULTIETHNIC AND MILLENNIAL FUTURE

Let Me Tell You a Story: Evangelicalism's Future

Millennials, we're told, don't want to be told what to do...

Millennials and Deficit Syndrome

In a society of acceptance, it has become unacceptable to...

Generational Divide in American Evangelicalism

Millennials will win in the end.

Evangelicalism in America Is Doing Just Fine

As the evangelical church in America attempts to embrace...

Evangelicalism's Unexpected and Surprising Future

The American Church needs to face the inevitable and...

Young, Restless, and Immediate: The Future of...

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LEARNING FROM THE PAST

The Future of Evangelicalism: Stronger, Smaller, and...

We'll be left with a church of upstream swimmers, people...

Truth, Powerful and Prevailing

Can the African American church experience teach us...

The Opportunity to Be Sojourners and Strangers

We don't have Mayberry anymore, if we ever did. Good....

Liberating Christians from Their Cultural Captivity

Like ambassadors, evangelicals must learn the language and...

No Prophecy, Just Prescription: Solid Theology

An evangelical church that does not have its eyes squarely...

This is not the first evangelical crossroads

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CALL TO MISSION

A Franciscan Moment

What is needed is a back-to-the-future revival. I see the...

Humility and Common Mission: Essentials of a Vibrant...

Is there a "Center" that can hold evangelicals together,...

"That Hideous Strength" Is Evangelicalism's Text for the...

The future of Evangelicalism will either look less like...

Evangelicalism 2.0 or a New Reformation?

If we don't redefine ourselves, we will end up reforming...

Protecting the Boundaries at the Expense of the Center

Evangelicalism pursues internal social dynamics as well as...

Evangelicalism In Search of a Soul

The nagging question for evangelicals is whether it is...

Neither Falwell nor Benedict, But a New Creation

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