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My Liberal Christian Church is Not Dying

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On July 18, 2012 · 27 Comments · In Religion

At the end of my 2004 faith crisis, when I realized that I didn’t want to be identified as evangelical, I felt lost. Nobody likes to be labeled, but it’s scary to not know where you belong.

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It was around this time that I began visiting the local Episcopal church, where friends I respected — [...]

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My Generation is Quitting Church and I’m Considering Membership, or Why I’m Not a None

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On March 22, 2012 · 5 Comments · In Religion

This past week a number of writers, including Rachel Evans and Christian Piatt, have taken to their blogs to elucidate why young people (in some cases themselves) leave the church (note the ever-important lowercase “c”). Coincidentally, this past Sunday The Daily published an op-ed by me about why I’m [...]

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There’s Nothing New About “New Evangelicals”

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On December 13, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Religion

My next column at Patheos is a response, in part to an essay at the New York Times website entitled “The New Evangelicals” by Marcia Pally. Pally has apparently written a book of the same name, which was released last month. To readers of Patrol, of course, the story [...]

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Evangelicalism Won’t Split, It’s Eroding

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On March 17, 2011 · 18 Comments · In Religion

Over at Tony Campolo’s “Red Letter Christians” blog, Jimmy Spencer sees the release of Love Wins as signalling an imminent split in Protestant evangelicalism. It’s the old people, who tend to be reformed, along with their young recruits, against the rest of us young folks, as Spencer sees it. And though he [...]

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