Contemporary Christianity: Christianity in America
Thinking Fellows
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4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Thinking Fellows finish their six part series on Christianity in America led by Dan van Voorhis. Dan talks about the second half of the 20th century and how it has led to the current cloudy question of where Christianity is headed. Covered in this episode is the rise of evangelicals, religious nones, and the resurgence of high church worship. Sit back, relax, grab a drink, and enjoy the show.
Show Notes:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to the Thank You Fellows Podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | My name is Caleb and today I'm joined by Dr. Rod Rosenblatt, Adam Francisco and Dan VanVorris. |
| 0:27.8 | We are on our sixth and final-ish episode of Christianity in America because I have a feeling that we might come back to some of these topics. |
| 0:37.3 | So many of the stories do lend themselves to, you know, bigger, bigger discussions. |
| 0:42.0 | But, I mean, if you're just listening now, we went and started with the colonies. |
| 0:47.9 | And we have worked our way forward through American history following the church primarily through that, but also some of |
| 0:55.8 | the social events that have a lot of overlap with theological issues. And in this final episode, |
| 1:03.9 | Dan's going to take us from World War II, basically, to the present. So, yeah, let's, we can do some definitions. |
| 1:11.5 | I was thinking, |
| 1:12.1 | um, |
| 1:12.8 | just now that I'd like a whiteboard. |
| 1:15.9 | And it was reminded that when I was 21 years old, |
| 1:19.0 | there was a Friday class, |
| 1:20.9 | a Christian, |
| 1:21.6 | it was, |
| 1:21.9 | uh, |
| 1:22.2 | religious bodies in America. |
| 1:23.8 | Rod, |
| 1:24.1 | it was your class. |
| 1:24.8 | It was a Friday. |
| 1:25.8 | And you had to speak somewhere. And it was like a two or three o'clock |
| 1:28.9 | class. And you said, no class. But Dan, if you want to kind of show, you know, where all the churches go today, |
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