Struggling with Evangelicalism, Dan Stringer
Struggling with Evangelicalism, Dan Stringer
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Struggling with Evangelicalism
Why I Want to Leave and What It Takes to Stay

Author: Dan Stringer

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Unabridged: 5 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/14/2021

Synopsis

When evangelicals make a mess, who cleans it up?

Many today are discarding the evangelical label, even if they still hold to the historic tenets of evangelicalism. But evangelicalism is a space, not just a brand, and living in that space is complicated. As a lifelong evangelical who happens to be a biracial Asian/White millennial, Dan Stringer has felt both included and alienated by the evangelical community and has wrestled with whether to stay or go. He sits as an uneasy evangelical insider with ties to many of evangelicalism's historic organizations and institutions. Neither "everything's fine" nor "burn it all down," Stringer offers a thoughtful appreciation of evangelicalism's history, identity, and strengths, but also lament for its blind spots, toxic brokenness, and complicity with injustice. From this complicated space, we can move forward with informed vision rather than resignation and with hope for our future together.

About Dan Stringer

Dan Stringer grew up as a third culture kid in five countries on three continents. He is a graduate of Wheaton College and Fuller Theological Seminary, ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and serves as team leader for InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty Ministries in Hawai'i. He is pastor of theological formation at Wellspring Covenant Church in Halawa, Hawaii. He previously was a social worker helping people obtain housing and employment. He has written for Missio Alliance, Inheritance, and Level Ground, and is a contributor to Father Factor.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh on December 24, 2021

I am a product of evangelicalism. I was born into evangelicalism. Grew up in evangelicalism. Studied in evangelicalism. Ordained in evangelicalism. Taught in evangelicalism. And while the cracks in the foundation had made themselves known during that time, it all came undone with the election of Don......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 07, 2021

Summary: Traces both the author’s personal struggles with evangelicalism and a four step process of healthy struggle involving awareness, appreciation, repentance, and renewal. If anyone can claim bona fide evangelical roots, Dan Stringer can. He is the biracial son of missionary parents, living in f......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 25, 2022

So much wisdom, transparency and resolve written about in these pages. I appreciated the tension of the beauty and brokenness in evangelicalism. I also thought it was important that the author talked about decentering evangelicals as the primary (read only) serious, devout expression of faith. To gr......more

Goodreads review by Joel on December 20, 2022

I've read quite a bit (essays, articles, books) on the problematic term "Evangelical" in recent years - particularly after 2016. While many have been helpful, Stringer's book resonated with me on the most personal level, in some part because it's a transparent and honest memoir, but also because he......more

Goodreads review by T.C. on July 14, 2021

Dan Stringer’s new book, _Struggling with Evangelicalism: Why I Want to Leave and What It Takes to Stay_, is a gift to the entire body of Christ, not just the Evangelical church. Through owning his location in the space of Evangelicalism (versus the brand), he shifts the conversation from mere criti......more

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