{"id":974,"date":"2008-11-11T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T04:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/11\/11\/interesting-3\/"},"modified":"2008-11-11T20:39:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T04:39:53","slug":"interesting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/11\/11\/interesting-3\/","title":{"rendered":"interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am working on a major series of posts, but thought I’d give you a link to an article I found today.<\/p>\n

The article comes from the Associated Baptist Press. This is the more left wing news service connected to Southern Baptist types, at least as I understand it.<\/p>\n

The article points to a generational change where the younger set is at odds with the values of the older set.<\/p>\n

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In an opinion piece entitled, “Evangelicals and the Obama era<\/a>“, author David Gushee begins with these paragraphs:<\/p>\n

I began this election year with The Future of Faith in American Politics<\/em>, a book arguing that there is an emerging political center in the white evangelical community.<\/p>\n

This center breaks with the evangelical right in that it is more politically independent, prioritizes a wider range of moral issues than the traditional family values concerns, eschews the right’s mood of angry nostalgia and seeks consensus solutions to advance the common good.<\/p>\n

I suggested the right was losing its hold on younger white evangelicals, who were moving in this more centrist direction (and sometimes further left) and that it never really had a hold on a majority of nonwhite evangelicals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These words seem eerily familiar, don’t they? I wonder if the unrest we are seeing among young FINOs isn’t symptomatic of the age rather than simply a trend within fundamentalism. In other words, we are living with the product of the television\/computer game\/internet generation. It holds to an entirely different culture than the post-war radical \/ baby boomer generation. Could it be said that the baby boomer fundamentalists are in their own way a 60s radicalist sort of people? In some ways I think that is so.<\/p>\n

Today’s generation is definitely cut from a different cloth.<\/p>\n

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