Favorite Blog Post : 4th Quarter

My favorite blog post this year is "What does your name say about you?"

My favorite blog post that I chose has many connections to what we have been talking about in class and I enjoyed writing it very much. I think that this quarter I definitely dropped the ball on blogging. I have almost no blogs for the month of April and only two for May. But do think that my blogging this quarter has greatly improved. I'm not going to lie, at the beginning of this year blogging was much more of a chore to me than something I enjoyed. But, as the year has progressed I have come to really enjoy blogging and am so glad I am in a class that does it. Blogging has made me more comfortable writing and forced me to make connections from out class to the real world. Although I may not continue blogging after this class I will surely (shirley?) continue making connections from the news to my life.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Junior Theme Update

So my question for the Junior theme is to answer the question: Why has the membership of the evangelical church dramatically increased? So far I have discovered some great articles through JSTOR. One of the things I initially had trouble with was to define exactly what an evangelical church is. After figuring out exactly what that was my research be came a lot easier. According to one of my articles evangelical means a group of people who:

1. have been or are seeking a "born-again" experience and have a personal relationship with Christ
2. take the Bible literally
3. are committed to spreading "the Good News" and "bearing public witness to their faith"

Also, within the evangelical faith there are four "subcultures"
-Fundamentalists
-Pentecostals
-Charismatics (typically associated with megachurches)
- neo-evangelicals

Along with the great articles from JSTOR and CQ researches I am in the middle of my book, A Lover's Quarrel with the Evangelical Church, which is a great resource because it is from the point of view of a member of the evangelical church.
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