Evangelical Devolution

“Whatever disagreements existed among believing Christians in the era after the Second World War, evangelicals at that time were clearly doctrinal vertebrates of some description. But in recent decades, we have added more than a little money to the movement, some academic respectability, a lust for influence, and the result is the widespread existence of evangelicals who think that dialogue is a verb, and a promiscuous one at that” (Mother Kirk, p. 73).