The Areopagus - Evangelical Disintegration

In 2009, Michael “The Internet Monk” Spencer predicted the collapse of American Evangelicalism within 10 years. Using this frame of reference, Dcn. Seraphim Rohlin joins the Areopagites to discuss a 2024 Christianity Today article titled “The Loosening of American Evangelicalism.” What is going on with this most visible of American religious groups?

0:00 - Intro
2:33 - "The coming Evangelical collapse"
18:46 - The Emergent Church
47:33 - A fragmented response to the Culture War
52:29 - Progressive takeover of institutions
1:04:24 - Failure to pass on a faith that can survive the secular onslaught
1:16:50 - The big church culture shift
1:45:26 - "No sectarians in post-Christian foxholes"
1:56:09 - Closing thoughts

Michael Spencer article (2009): https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/...

Brad East article (2024): https://web.archive.org/web/202506021...

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