Notes
Notes
Chapter 1 Bad Faith, Good Faith
1. To be fair, American Christianity has its share of extremists (even if we are understandably reluctant to call the perpetrators “Christians”). From murdering abortion providers to hoisting “God Hates Fags” signs at funerals of US soldiers, these and other horrors are justifiably called acts of extremism.
2. Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (New York: Twelve Books, 2009).
3. Unless otherwise noted, all statistics are from original research conducted by Barna Group.
4. Dallas Willard, Knowing Christ Today (New York: HarperOne, 2009).
5. Heart + Mind Strategies, “First Freedom,” research sponsored by Maclellan Foundation, conducted among a representative sample of 2,507 US adults, August 2014.
6. Rob Cooper, “Forcing a Religion on Your Children Is as Bad as Child Abuse, Claims Atheist Professor Richard Dawkins,” DailyMail.com, April 22, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312813/Richard-Dawkins-Forcing-religion-children-child-abuse-claims-atheist-professor.html.
7. Jeffrey Taylor, “David Brooks, Religious Clown: Debunking Phony Godsplaining from the New York Times’ Laziest Column,” Salon.com, March 15, 2015, http://www.salon.com/2015/03/15/david_brooks_religious_clown_debunking_phony_godsplaining_from_the_new_york_times_laziest_columnist/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow.
8. See especially Dale Kuehne, Sex and the iWorld: Rethinking Relationship beyond an Age of Individualism (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009).
9. See George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).
1. Heart + Mind Strategies, “First Freedom.”
2. The Giving Institute, Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy 2014 (Chicago: The Giving Institute, 2014), 106.
3. Ibid.
4. Barna OmniPoll, August 2015, N = 1,000.
5. David Brooks, The Road to Character (New York: Random House, 2015), 271.
6. The idea of “faithful presence” is explored in James Davison Hunter, To Change the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). It’s a concept that gives vision for the role Christians are to play when working in any industry—that is, to be a faithful presence.
Chapter 3 Extreme
1. Our sincere thanks to Pat MacMillan and Dee Alsop of Heart + Mind Strategies for their pioneering work to explore similar territory.
Chapter 4 The Tension We Feel and Why
1. For an in-depth examination, read Kirsten Powers, The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2015).
2. Mark Noll, “The Bible in American Public Life: 1860–2005,” Books & Culture, July 2005, http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2005/sepoct/15.07.html?paging=off.
3. Ibid.
4. See Gary Scott Smith, Religion in the Oval Office: The Religious Lives of American Presidents (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
5. See William R. Hutchison, Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003).
6. Our sincere thanks to Dale Kuehne for his work on the remaining moral rules. He should not be held responsible for any of our errors in logic or expression.
7. Torie Henderson, “I Believed the Propaganda,” Life Coaching for Parents, May 29, 2012, http://lifecoachingforparents.com/i-believed-the-propaganda.
8. Dallas Willard, Knowing Christ Today (New York: HarperOne, 2009), 199–200.
9. To gain a much deeper understanding of how Epicureanism, the belief Lucretius was popularizing through his poem, has gained traction since the Enlightenment, see Stephen Greenblatt, PhD, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012).
1. Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live? (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 1999), 15.
2. Historian David Bebbington has offered a four-part definition that pretty well sums up what we mean when we call ourselves “evangelicals.” Conversionism is the belief that lives need to be transformed through a “born-again” experience and a lifelong process of following Jesus. Activism is the expression and demonstration of the gospel in missionary and social reform efforts. Biblicism is a high regard for and obedience to the Bible as Christians’ ultimate authority. Crucicentrism is a stress on the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross that makes possible the redemption of humanity. See David Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1930s (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989).
Chapter 6 The Right Questions
1. See David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity . . . and Why It Matters (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), especially chapter 8, “Judgmental,” for an in-depth examination of this criticism.
2. Kirsten Powers, “Philadelphia Abortion Clinic Horror,” USA Today, April 11, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/04/10/philadelphia-abortion-clinic-horror-column/2072577.
3. “What the News Isn’t Telling You and Why We Can’t Afford to Pretend It’s Not Happening,” A Holy Experience, http://www.aholyexperience.com/2015/05/into-iraq-2-what-the-news-isnt-telling-you-why-we-cant-afford-to-pretend-its-not-happening-sozans-impossible-choice-and-our-very-possible-one/.
4. http://www.preemptivelove.org.
5. Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey, How Now Shall We Live?
6. David Rowbotham, “Brisbane,” Australian Poetry Library, http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/rowbotham-david/brisbane-0620083.
7. Tim Keller, “A New Kind of Urban Christian,” CityChurchYork, February 28, 2012, http://www.citychurchyork.com/a-new-kind-of-urban-christian/.
8. http://darlingmagazine.org/mission.
9. Ibid.
10. Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2008).
1. Zach Ford, “Tracking Barack Obama’s Position on Marriage Equality,” ThinkProgress, June 22, 2011, http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/06/22/250931/timeline-barack-obama-marriage-equality/.
2. Stephen V. Monsma, “Neither a Christian Nor a Secular Nation,” Capital Commentary, July 20, 2015, http://www.capitalcommentary.com/principled-pluralism/neither-christian-nor-secular-nation.
3. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/bill-maher-the-comedy-team-of-smug-and-arrogant.
4. President Bill Clinton made this remark on the one-hundredth anniversary of the New Republic publication. He also made it in a sit-down conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on national TV. See Conor Friedersdorf, “Bill Clinton on America’s ‘One Remaining Bigotry,’ ” Atlantic, November 21, 2014, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/11/bill-clinton-americans-should-disagree-with-ideas-not-labels/383024/, the article reporting on his speech to the New Republic audience.
5. See Patricia Wen, “Catholic Charities Stuns State, Ends Adoptions,” Boston Globe, March 11, 2006, http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/11/catholic_charities_stuns_state_ends_adoptions/.
6. Practice of faith inside a church building is a basic feature of most modern societies. What is unique about America is its protections of free exercise and association that engage our public square with faith. See Eleanor Albert, “Religion in China,” Council on Foreign Relations, updated June 10, 2015, http://www.cfr.org/china/religion-china/p16272.
7. This is taken from James Madison’s “Memorial and Remonstrance” papers of 1785. See http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendI_religions43.html.
8. Senator Barack Obama, “Call to Renewal Keynote Address,” June 28, 2006, http://obamaspeeches.com/081-Call-to-Renewal-Keynote-Address-Obama-Speech.htm.
9. Barack Obama worked for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago’s far south side. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_life_and_career_of_Barack_Obama.
10. Os Guinness often asks this question when recognizing the unique gift America gives to the world in sorting through how religious liberty plays out. No other nation has quite figured this out, and America can be a shining light on this point. See Os Guinness, A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2012).
11. The following is the text Gabe summarizes from Charles Taylor, “The Meaning of Secularism” paper presented to the NYU Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy, New York, November 11, 2010:
On one view (A), secularism is mainly concerned with controlling religion. Its task is to define the place of religion in public life, and to keep it firmly in this location. This doesn’t need to involve strife or repression, provided various religious actors understand and respect these limits. But the various rules and measures which make up the secularist (or laïque) régime all have this basic purpose.
On the other view (B), the main point of a secularist régime is to manage the religious and metaphysical-philosophical diversity of views (including non- and anti-religious views) fairly and democratically. Of course, this task will include setting certain limits to religiously motivated action in the public sphere, but it will also involve similar limits on those espousing non- or anti-religious philosophies. (For instance, the degree to which either can discriminate in certain relations, like hiring.) For B, religion is not the prime focus of secularism.
The case I would like to make here is that B is much superior to A, at least for our time. The popularity of A is to be explained by certain Western histories of struggle in which secularist régimes came to be. But our present predicament is for the most part rather different than the one which generated these conflicts. It is above all, one of growing diversity in all Western democracies. For these reasons, B is more appropriate.
The full paper can be found at http://iasc-culture.org/THR/archives/Fall2010/Taylor_lo.pdf.
12. John D. Inazu, Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving through Deep Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Chapter 8 Assimilate or Accommodate
1. Kathleen Parker, “Trigger Warnings, Colleges, and the ‘Swaddled Generation,’ ” Washington Post, May 19, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-swaddled-generation/2015/05/19/162ea17a-fe6a-11e4-805c-c3f407e5a9e9_story.html.
2. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Atlantic, September 2015, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. “Mike Bloomberg Delivers Remarks at Harvard University’s 363rd Commencement Ceremony,” Mike Bloomberg, May 29, 2014, http://www.mikebloomberg.com/news/mike-bloomberg-delivers-remarks-at-harvard-universitys-363rd-commencement-ceremony.
6. See Les and Leslie Parrot, The Good Fight (Franklin, TN: Worthy Publishing, 2015).
Chapter 9 After the Revolution
1. Donna Freitas, The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture Is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused about Intimacy (New York: Basic Books, 2013).
2. Leigh Ann Wheeler, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (London: Oxford University Press, 2012), 220.
3. “How Big Is the Pornography Industry in the United States?” CovenantEyes, June 1, 2012, http://www.covenanteyes.com/2012/06/01/how-big-is-the-pornography-industry-in-the-united-states/.
4. Ravi Somaiya, “Nudes Are Old News at Playboy,” New York Times, October 12, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/nudes-are-old-news-at-playboy.html?_r=0.
5. Annalee Newitz, “Ashley Madison Code Shows More Women, and More Bots,” Gizmodo, August 31, 2015, http://gizmodo.com/ashley-madison-code-shows-more-women-and-more-bots-1727613924.
6. Pamela Paul, Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006).
7. “The Sexual Revolution’s Coming Refugee Crisis,” Russell Moore, July 7, 2015, https://www.russellmoore.com/2015/07/07/the-sexual-revolutions-coming-refugee-crisis/.
Chapter 10 Marriage, Family, and Friendships
1. “Children in Single Parent Families,” Kids Count Data Center, http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/106-children-in-single-parent-families#detailed/1/any/false/36,868,867,133,38/any/429,430.
2. Eleanor Barkhorn, “Getting Married Late Is Great for College-Educated Women,” Atlantic, March 15, 2013, http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/getting-married-later-is-great-for-college-educated-women/274040.
3. See David Kim and Barna Group, 20 and Something: Have the Time of Your Life (And Figure It All Out Too) (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).
4. David P. Gushee and Christine C. Pohl, “Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition,” Christian Ethics Today 33 (April 2001): 21, http://christianethicstoday.com/cetart/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.main&ArtID=279.
5. Gregory Thompson, “Resurrection and the Household” (sermon, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville, VA, May 17, 2015).
6. David P. Gushee and Christine C. Pohl, “Making Room.”
Chapter 11 Life, Death, and Disability
1. See “The Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus,” second century, http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/diognetus-roberts.html.
2. Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity (San Francisco: HarperOne, 1997), 161.
3. Erin O’Neill, “Chris Smith Says More than 54 Million Abortions Have Been Performed since U.S. Supreme Court Decided Roe v. Wade,” PolitiFact, March 18, 2012, http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2012/mar/18/chris-smith/chris-smith-says-more-54-million-abortions-have-be.
4. The Planned Parenthood annual report for 2014 shows 327,000 abortions performed. That’s roughly thirty-seven per hour or one every ninety seconds. Douglas Ernst, “Planned Parenthood Performed 327K Abortions in Fiscal 2014: ‘We’ve Come a Long Way,’ ” Washington Times, January 1, 2015, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/1/planned-parenthood-327k-abortions-fiscal-2014/. In contrast, they provided only 1,880 adoption referrals: D’Angelo Gore, “Planned Parenthood Services,” FactCheck.org, September 4, 2015, http://www.factcheck.org/2015/09/planned-parenthoods-services/.
5. “Five Things You Need to Know about Adoption,” Barna Group, November 15, 2013, https://www.barna.org/barna-update/family-kids/643-5-things-you-need-to-know-about-adoption; and Jedd Medefind, Becoming Home: Adoption, Foster Care, and Mentoring: Living Out God’s Heart for Orphans (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).
6. Justin McCarthy, “Seven in Ten Americans Back Euthanasia,” Gallup, June 18, 2014, http://www.gallup.com/poll/171704/seven-americans-back-euthanasia.aspx.
7. Brittany Maynard, “My Right to Death with Dignity at 29,” CNN, November 2, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/opinion/maynard-assisted-suicide-cancer-dignity/.
8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lHXH0Zb2QI.
9. “Brittany Maynard, the Terminally Ill Woman Choosing to Die Nov 1 Tells CNN: Now ‘Doesn’t Seem like the Right Time,’ ” WGNTV.com, October 30, 2014, http://wgntv.com/2014/10/29/brittany-maynard-the-terminially-ill-woman-chosing-to-die-nov-1-tells-cnn-now-doesnt-seem-like-the-right-time/.
10. Kim Kuo, “Assisted Suicide and Real Death with Dignity,” Christianity Today, September 15, 2015, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2015/september/assisted-suicide-and-real-death-with-dignity.html.
11. “Episode 23: Pro-life, Pro-choice,” The Liturgists, September 18, 2015, http://www.theliturgists.com/podcast/2015/9/6/episode-23-pro-life-pro-choice.
Chapter 12 Race and Prejudice
1. I found out later that, no, the Tennessee Residence was never a plantation. It was built in 1929, sixty-six years after the Emancipation Proclamation. But that morning I had no idea.
2. From this convening we created a podcast that gives even more context and voice to the depth of this conversation on race. Listen to the entire forty-five-minute podcast here: http://qideas.org/articles/q-roundtable-podcast-race/.
3. Eight out of ten evangelicals are white, compared to less than 65 percent of the general population (Barna Cities and States Database, 2009–15). N=30,065.
4. Lisa Sharon Harper’s argument is confirmed by the research of Michael Emerson in Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
5. You can view the entire eighteen-minute Q Talk interview at http://qideas.org/videos/lessons-from-ferguson-boston.
Chapter 13 The Gay Conversation
1. Gary J. Gates and Frank Newport, “Special Report: 3.4% of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBT,” Gallup, October 18, 2012, http://www.gallup.com/poll/158066/special-report-adults-identify-lgbt.aspx.
2. The Q podcast provides a five-episode series that delves deeply into the sexuality conversation, including twenty-five voices who weigh in on the conversation. To hear from people who can provide insights, from personal experience, on how we can engage this conversation with a loving posture, listen at www.qideas.org/podcast.
3. Writers such as Matthew Vines, David Gushee, Tony Campolo, and many others have used a similar line of thinking over the past few years to justify their affirmation of same-sex marriage within the church.
4. Boston’s Tremont Temple, chartered in 1839, set out this clear standard at the founding of their church. See their history page at http://tremonttemple.org/about/our-story/.
5. For many more examples of Christians on the right side of history, see Kevin DeYoung, What Does the Bible Really Teach about Homosexuality? (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015).
6. For a deeper reading on this passage, see John Piper, “How Paul Worked to Overcome Slavery,” DesiringGod, September 3, 2009, http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-paul-worked-to-overcome-slavery.
7. Thomas D. Williams, “Poll: Support for Gay Marriage Has Fallen after Obergefell,” Breitbart, July 19, 2015, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/19/poll-support-for-gay-marriage-has-fallen-after-obergefell.
8. Mainline Protestant denominations include American Baptist Churches in the USA, the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church.
Chapter 14 We Can’t Live without Intimacy
1. Julie Rodgers, who identifies as a gay Christian, makes this statement in her Q Talk at Q Women on November 13, 2014, http://qideas.org/videos/freedom-through-constraint/.
2. See my entire conversation with Gene Robinson at Stanford’s Memorial Church at https://youtu.be/l4avq4Bk9c8.
3. American Psychological Association, “Answers to Your Questions,” www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.pdf.
There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay, or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors. Many think that nature and nurture both play complex roles; most people experience little or no sense of choice about their sexual orientation.
4. In my public conversations with both Andrew Sullivan and Eugene Robinson, they both acknowledged that orientation is formed after the age of three.
5. Jenel Williams Paris, The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex Is Too Important to Define Who We Are (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2011) is a great read that unpacks how fluid our sexuality is and provides a very helpful continuum from “The Kinsey Scale” on page 45.
6. Stanton L. Jones and Mark A. Yarhouse, Ex-Gays?: A Longitudinal Study of Religiously Mediated Change in Sexual Orientation (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009). See also http://www.sexualidentityinstitute.org/resources/faq.
7. “Support for Same-Sex Marriage at Record High, but Key Segments Remain Opposed,” Pew Research Center, June 8, 2015, http://www.people-press.org/2015/06/08/support-for-same-sex-marriage-at-record-high-but-key-segments-remain-opposed.
8. Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), 142.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Read more about how feelings don’t always point to reality in David and Jason Benham, “The One Thing Bruce Jenner Really Needs,” WND, June 14, 2015, http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/the-1-thing-bruce-jenner-really-needs/.
12. “Caitlyn Jenner Is Finally ‘Free’ on Vanity Fair’s Cover,” Vanity Fair Video, June 1, 2015, http://video.vanityfair.com/watch/vanity-fair-cover-caitlyn-jenner-is-finally-free.
13. C. S. Lewis, First and Second Things (London: Fount, 1985), 22.
14. Tim Keller, “The Bible and Same-Sex Relationships: A Review Article,” Redeemer Report, June 2015, http://www.redeemer.com/redeemer-report/article/the_bible_and_same_sex_relationships_a_review_article.
15. This is, in fact, the title of his book on the subject.
16. Matt. 16:24–25; cf. Luke 9:23–24.
17. Dayna Olson-Getty, “The Witness of Celibate Sexuality: A Challenge to Evangelical Theology and Practice of Single Sexuality” (unpublished paper, InterVarsity Ministry Exchange), 10.
18. Eve Tushnet, Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith (Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 2014), 126.
19. Matthew Jones, “Hospitality,” Gay Subtlety, August 9, 2012, https://gaysubtlety.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/hospitality.
20. Tushnet’s book, along with Wesley Hill, Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010) and Wesley Hill, Spiritual Friendship: Finding Love in the Church as a Gay Celibate Christian (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2015), are great guides for walking alongside gay Christians as members of their spiritual family.
21. Tushnet, Gay and Catholic, 207.
Chapter 15 Five Ways to Be Faithful
1. Kirsten Powers, “Jim Crow Laws for Gays and Lesbians?” USA Today, February 19, 2014, http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/02/18/gays-lesbians-kansas-bill-religious-freedom-christians-column/5588643.
2. From an interview conducted by Preston Sprinkle on September 23, 2015, for the Q Podcast. Used with permission from Christopher Yuan.
3. Preston Sprinkle, People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015), 35.
4. Ibid., 36.
5. From an interview conducted by Gabe Lyons on September 28, 2015, for the Q Podcast. Used with permission from Dean Curry.
6. These are lessons I’ve learned from reading James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009) and James K. A. Smith, Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013).
7. James K. A. Smith’s work and writings (see above) have had a profound influence on our thinking about the relationship between the church and state.
8. Gabe’s book The Next Christians was first subtitled in 2010 The Good News about the End of Christian America. In the first three chapters, he makes the case that great positives can come from the changing landscape of America.
Chapter 16 Firm Center, Soft Edges
1. Dallas Willard, Knowing Christ Today.
2. Barry Corey, Love Kindness: Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2016).
Chapter 17 Church in a New World
1. Andrew Liddle, “Faith in Scotland Offers Hope to Christian Groups,” Courier Dundee, September 2, 2015, 17.
2. David O’Reilly, “A Study Asks: What’s a Church’s Economic Worth?” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 2011, http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-01/news/27092987_1_partners-for-sacred-places-congregations-churches. See also “Letters: Church’s ‘Negative’ Score Result of ‘Counting Error,’ ” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 7, 2011, http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-07/news/27105556_1_partners-for-sacred-places-housing-values-congregation.
3. “World Vision: Church Communities Australia Report,” research conducted by McCrindle, November 2015–January 2015. See infographic at http://www.mccrindle.com.au/resources/World-Vision-Church-and-Community-Infographic_Digital.pdf.
4. Monica Lara, “Mission Church Hosts Prom for Some Special Guests,” Ventura County Star, May 8, 2012, http://www.vcstar.com/news/mission-church-hosts-prom-for-some-special.
5. Barna Group, The State of Discipleship: A Barna Report Produced in Partnership with The Navigators (Ventura, CA: Barna Group, 2015).
6. Willard, Knowing Christ Today, page 198. This entire chapter is worth the price of admission to the book, especially his discussion of the importance of religious belief as knowledge, not merely beliefs or commitment. We highly recommend it to pastors and other church leaders.
7. “The State of Spiritual Leadership” is a two-year study Barna conducted in 2014 and 2015 on behalf of Pepperdine University to assess pastors’ perceptions of their physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental health; pastors’ perceptions of their congregation’s overall health; and US adults’ perceptions of Christian ministers.
8. Rod Dreher, “ ‘Resident Aliens’ and the Benedict Option,” American Conservative, September 1, 2015, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/resident-aliens-the-benedict-option.
9. Augustine, The City of God (excerpts on the Two Cities), Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook, http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/aug-city2.asp.
10. Robert Louis Wilken, “The Church as Culture,” First Things, April 2004, http://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/04/the-church-as-culture.
11. For more detailed treatment on managing technology and practicing Sabbath as expressions of a countercultural life, see chapter 8 of Gabe’s book The Next Christians.
Chapter 18 Faithful in Exile
1. Max DePree, Leadership Is an Art (New York: Doubleday Business, 1989).
2. Todd Starnes, “Houston Mayor Drops Bid to Subpoena Pastors’ Sermons,” Fox News Opinion, October 29, 2014, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/29/houston-mayor-drops-bid-to-subpoena-pastors-sermons.html.
3. David French, “Gordon College Keeps Its Faith and Its Accreditation,” National Review, May 1, 2015, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417788/gordon-college-keeps-its-faith-and-its-accreditation-david-french.