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 looklike and very much an emphasis on getting married, but like a very specific idea of what that marriage
uh that was supposed to Define reality from the bottom up and I think it still Evangelical probably that was my field with scripture my primary love uh the
has featured him he um was a hardcore Evangelical black preacher very good-looking nicely dress with a lot of money he studied under EarlRoberts when and pal was still in the Bush Administration he would call Coen pal on a weekly basis that's how much
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 aprop in his school's Damn Yankees production, I used the legal pads to sketch blueprints for grand stage
Episcopalian or Unitarian, then you are liberal. evangelicals do to say it's equivalent to infanticide.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
serious ones do, you know, but but I think for most people, they just, you know, you're you're you're a Catholic or 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 that way because of where they were born and so on and so forth, right? They don't really interrogate it in that way.
on her Facebook site. And she is an evangelical Christian. And she had this deep religious belief that without-- unquestionably is homophobic, in that she believes that gay sex is a sin, et cetera, et cetera.
and lay it on me. Because I'm an evangelical , I can say, you know what, you have your relationship with God. And I respect that, and let us reason together.
And we're in dance mode. We're-- "evangelical " is a little strong.
This was in northern Nigeria. And this was an Evangelical Christian church. And they really had this very strong beliefs that contraception and family planning was taboo,
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.
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
this is where their evangelical allies were, especially out of rural areas -- they could
these are mostly evangelical studies but the behavior of Christians and evangelicals in particular are no different than the behave
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
I think American evangelicals have exported a range of tools to countries like Uganda.
would mean for both parties. Um, and it it you know, in that world, so the way I protected myself was by not dating other evangelical men. And then I left the church all to together and then of course discovered that you know that specific sort of structure might not be
He was a very devout Christian and evangelical minister.
Viola Armstrong was a very devout evangelical Christian.
with the cultural anti-modernity of the evangelical religious right.
me and because I I grew up Evangelical there's this expectation that if you
Like I had one sister who didn't speak to me for five years, because she was saying they'll think it's us. Especially if you're an evangelical thing.
So the university was run by Evangelical Christians who were sort of undercover in the country, and you were an undercover teacher, just
Because this group of fundamental Evangelical Christians that fund the school-- $35 million to build and a lot more to operate--
In introducing Frank, it's hard to keep it brief as it seems unlikely that one person could have amassed a resume that includes the following-- born into a family of prominent evangelicals , helping found the religious right in the United States, rejecting that political point of view, and becoming a vocal opponent of the Tea Party; directing slasher movies; becoming a "New York Times" bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction;
I say collective because it seems unlikely that one person could have amassed a CV that includes all of the following. Born into a family of prominent evangelicals , and helping them found the religious right in the United States. Rejecting that political point of view, and becoming a vocal enemy of the Tea Party, directing slasher movies, becoming a "New York Times"
of reasons but but Christians or eight evangelicals are supposed to give ten percent of their income to give less than three percent so they're not you
So much of the world view of the brand of evangelical Christianity that I was raised on was, the Bible is not a buffet.
Yeah. It was evangelical figures that I think hijack honest religious belief and so on
And so I started to read all of the evangelical atheist books-- Richard Dawkins, "The God Delusion,"
Conference, World Relief-- the evangelical group.
of Christianity and often a shift to a more evangelical and charismatic style of religious practice.
And so the intellectual discussion about life and about its meaning and about philosophy and theology masquerades as the point itself as if the old evangelical theology was if you can get your heart right with God and believe the correct theology, you'll be saved, and otherwise, you're lost.
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 to, put in the evangelical terms, receive the mantle of his anointed prophetic ministry, or however they would have put it. One day in the mid 1980s, after he died in 1984, through a series of things that I write about in this memoir,
If any of you grew up in the evangelical community, the largest thing that I got to experience was Veggie Tales, which are large,
And so Ugandan activists made public the role of American evangelical strategies and money and power and influence
people. The Evangelical woman is still extremely strong in this country about, believe it or not, one out of six Americans identify with that movement and consider themselves, even
I don't get my information on Judaism or Hinduism or Evangelical Christianity from the evening news. I have an appreciative knowledge of the world's religions, including humanism,