Say more about that. Well, I'm going to personalize this a little bit, but you know, having come up in the conservative evangelical world, which had a very kind of rigid idea of what a relationship between a man and a woman would look like and very much an emphasis on getting married, but like a very specific idea of what that marriage
And even now that I'm, oddly enough, sort of a traveling evangelist for meditation, which was never in my plan at all-- even now that I am, I still actually believe the price of security is insecurity. I still think if you're going to do anything great, it takes a lot of work, and stress, and plotting, and planning.
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He's received many, many awards, at least two of which include the word "legend" in their title. And he serves Google as our chief Internet evangelist. So today he's going to share with us some of his insights into how the whole Internet evolved and how we could have done it better if we had only had known these things in advance. So with no further ado, here's Vint.
Episcopalian or Unitarian, then you are liberal. evangelicals do to say it's equivalent to infanticide.
by 14 yellow legal pads on which to take notes. The way an ele evangel evangelical father, I got it, buys his gay son a baseball glove. But just as the gay son uses the baseball glove as a prop in his school's Damn Yankees production, I used the legal pads to sketch blueprints for grand stage
of back up and and and give a little bit of of context to the political situation, you know, I come out of conservative evangelicalism. So kind of grew up hearing about Roie Wade and now kind of watching that that movement against legal abortion fortunately achieve some some real material success.
Being obsessed by these books was seen as a bad thing. The Evangelical Alliance published an eight-page warning guide about them, saying if you read these books, interacting with ghouls and demons, you're bound to be possessed by the devil.
The big thing at the time in the business was evangelism marketing. And evangelism marketing is basically encouraging people to take a role in actively spreading the word on your behalf in a positive way. Today you'd call it word of mouth.
And at the same time, I'm on a journey of spirituality, trying to figure out my roots, being based in evangelical Christianity. And I'm lost in my head. I became an intellectual rationalist, because that's the only safe place that I could find.
from thinking anymore. One question just leads to the next, and it's the overall experience, and where it matters is not that you get your head right with God if you're an evangelical or get your philosophy right and march side by step with Chris Hitchens or Dawkins. What matters is your relationship with the people in your life, who you love most about whom
Only the British royal family and the mob works that way. But evangelicalism also has that. Where the God business becomes a family business.
And so, because these men were threatening to rape, at least what appeared to be, other men, my dad said, well, these men wanted to have sex with men. So evangelicals love to let people know what they believe.
No, you took a perfect amount of time. But Evangeline's been very kind. She's going to stick around to sign some books, and take a picture.
It was only in the late 1850s that they changed that rule, because it was becoming more of a grown up game, and people and evangelizing it. And around that time, this controversy had been swirling about, where did baseball originate?
proselytizing evangelist for the changes that technology's bringing to the world and particularly foreign policy.
That was quite surprising to me. Why should a liberal be the one who's trying to look at the entire tradition and take it all very seriously, while evangelical, Bible churches are saying, well, we don't actually read the whole Bible. And then, so, just to clarify -- so what's your kind of view on Jesus? Do you think he was divine or not?
a Baptist or evangelical or whatever because your your parents were and they're that way because their parents were and and their parents were were
And she is an evangelical Christian.
really don't think evangelism works very well. I don't know why we adopted that term. I think it's kind of a strange
you need to evangelize amongst your community.
I was on the evangelism team prior to that.
And they evangelize OLIO.
I was an evangelist.
Because I'm an evangelical, I can say, you know what, you have your relationship with God.
Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign
The gospel of evangelism that changes the heart is the only message we have where I have seen in parts of the world people who
So thought leaders are evangelists.
We're-- "evangelical" is a little strong.
I sound like an evangelist on the stage, but it's really true.
So he became an evangelist for tequila, which back in the '80s and '90s was thought of as, I don't know, like a bad choice, the kind of choice
And this was an Evangelical Christian church.
And so when I was 17, 18 years old, I began working with my dad on producing a couple of documentary films, which then went out into the evangelical world. One was called "How Should We Then Live?" And another, "Whatever Happened to the Human Race?" that we made with Doctor C. Everett Koop, who then became Ronald
and large venues like this where we were packing 10, 12, 15 thousand people in a night, my dad became a household name not in the larger world, but in the evangelical ghetto. And I, as his young sidekick-- and this is a long time ago in the late '70s and early '80s-- became this kind of a person who is going
And after this memoir came out, which I got around to writing when I was in my mid 50s, not having wanted to address the issue of why I left the evangelical world and my family's history before. Because there are a lot of people who revere the Schaeffer name out there in kind of a guru presence kind of way.
And he said, you know, I'm really disappointed. Because you left the evangelical world, and as I was reading this book, I thought you were going to come over to our side. He saw things very much in black and white terms.
And so, because these men were threatening to rape, at least what appeared to be, other men, my dad said, well, these men wanted to have sex with men. For a lot of evangelicals, that text is perhaps the most important one, in terms of what would be a stumbling block for them
It was a very evangelistic consultative sell.
I was Apple's evangelist to convince people to write Mac software.
So if anyone would like to ask questions, please. And I'm sure Evangeline would love to keep talking about the book. Yeah, but I'm tolerant and graceful.
Give it up for Evangeline Lilly.
The problem is evangelizing that information to the point where you actually change the way government works, more broadly.
I think American evangelicals have exported a range of tools to countries like Uganda.
And they become evangelists and then marketers.
more self-proclaimed evangelistic deeply devout Christians really loved the book and I got a long letter back from her about, how it had been handled delicately and about how
Pat Robertson this evangelist he said he had had a talk with George Bush before the Iraq war and George Bush had said to
An An evangelical pimp. He's talking about the rapture.
Early in the 20th century, the magazine was a primary target of the new fundamentalist movement. And by mid-century, Billy Graham helped found a new magazine of evangelical conviction to oppose it called Christianity Today. But now the editor of the Christian Century tells us that liberal Christianity it living in exile and that liberal Christians prefer to use other words to describe themselves like
This was the evangelical -- other than abolitionism. You know, the fight to ban slavery in the