Comments on: Evangelicals and Populist Suicide

By: Being Christians in the Age of Obama « MER Christianity

Being Christians in the Age of Obama « MER Christianity — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:40:03 +0000

[...] decades confusing political causes with the cause of Christ. I have written at length about their populism and resentment, characteristics that mix a particular American identity — predominantly rural [...]

By: A 1989 Bull Session and Intellectualism « MER Christianity

A 1989 Bull Session and Intellectualism « MER Christianity — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:01:12 +0000

[...] have spent time on this blog exploring the barren flats of evangelical populism. Now it is time to take a look at the swamp of evangelical [...]

By: A.W. Tozer, the Anti-Populist « MER Christianity

A.W. Tozer, the Anti-Populist « MER Christianity — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:09:12 +0000

[...] have been writing in a meandering, bloggish sort of way about evangelical populism. I have described it as a mindset of suspicion and resentment, of “us versus them,” [...]

By: Do You Know This Man? « MER Christianity

Do You Know This Man? « MER Christianity — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:00:59 +0000

[...] don’t think most pastors know this guy at all. I think most try to reach Biff with populist clichés only from laziness — or because they’re too intimidated to sit down and talk with him. I [...]

By: Sondheim As a Preacher « MER Christianity

Sondheim As a Preacher « MER Christianity — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:06:07 +0000

[...] written about the inability of the evangelical populist to go deeper than sentimentality. So much of the spiritual deadness of evangelicalism, the dearth [...]

By: Integrity or Control? Choose. « MER Christianity

Integrity or Control? Choose. « MER Christianity — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:11:18 +0000

[...] when I wrote last week that the first step away from populism is for evangelical leaders to rediscover the foundation of their authority, many readers probably [...]

By: Integrity or Control? Choose. « MER Christianity

Integrity or Control? Choose. « MER Christianity — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:11:18 +0000

[...] when I wrote last week that the first step away from populism is for evangelical leaders to rediscover the foundation of their authority, many readers probably [...]

By: To Revitalize Evangelical Culture « MER Christianity

To Revitalize Evangelical Culture « MER Christianity — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:14:47 +0000

[...] church, evangelicals, gospel, pastors, populism Tags: Bible, evangelicals, gospel, populism If populism has left evangelicals resentful and suspicious of “elites,” and complacent in a [...]

By: How Populism Corrupts Evangelical Leaders « MER Christianity

How Populism Corrupts Evangelical Leaders « MER Christianity — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:25:23 +0000

[...] big part of my beef with populism is that it corrupts evangelical leaders, and I choose the verb corrupt for its precision. Populism [...]

By: Sentimentality And Emotional Death « MER Christianity

Sentimentality And Emotional Death « MER Christianity — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:37:37 +0000

[...] 3, 2008 in Christianity, Jesus, art, evangelicals, populism Populism, the ethos among evangelicals, works most powerfully with negative emotions like resentment and [...]