The Song ‘Mary Did You Know’ Cloyingly Misses The Point

“Mary’s Magnificat is subversive. We may want songs with sentimentality, but Mary knows - seemingly better than we do - that the messiah that is coming is going to turn our world upside down."  - Pulpit Shenanigans 

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Stay home, evangelical medical organization tells churches as COVID spreads - Religion News

 

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Andy Stanley: Trump Evangelicals Hurt Church's Ability To Reach People - The Atlantic

Stanley and his allies are now saddled with an image of evangelicalism they don’t want and didn’t create.

As a young man, Andy Stanley yearned to reach people beyond the conservative Christian world, to make the story of the resurrection irresistible to the unchurched. So he rejected his culture-war inheritance and struck out on his own.

Stanley declined to join his friends in ministry on the Trump train, waving them off when they texted selfies from Trump Tower. But neither has he joined the evangelical resistance.

But while Stanley and similar giants inside the evangelical world have largely stayed out of politics during the Trump years, other evangelicals have been busy telling the outside world that their faith is completely aligned with Trumpism.

This has created a dilemma: Stanley and his allies are now saddled with an image of evangelicalism they don’t want and didn’t create. Before they can reach anyone with a message of faith over politics, they’ll have to contend with the political baggage their fellow Christian leaders created.

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