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Who Would Jesus Smack Down?

From the NY Times Magazine article on Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church in Seattle:
Driscoll disdains the prohibitions of traditional evangelical Christianity. Taboos on alcohol, smoking, swearing and violent movies have done much to shape American Protestant culture — a culture that he has called the domain of “chicks and some chickified dudes with limp […]

“The goal that diversity in secondary matters would be welcomed quite soon passed over into an attitude that evangelicalism could in fact be reduced simply to its core principles of Scripture and Christ. In hindsight, it is now rather clear that the toleration of diversity slowly became an indifference toward much of the fabric […]

Here is a link to the audio from a recent symposium at Wheaton College, where Nathan Hatch (Democratization of American Christianity), Mark Noll (Scandal of the Evangelical Mind), and John Piper (Desiring God) discussed the strengths and weaknesses of American Evangelicalism over the past 40 years.
HT:JT