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I am intrigued by today’s post by Rachel Held Evans,<\/a> in which she defends “young evangelicals like myself [who] have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines.” Classical Christian mysticism and spirituality such as lectio divina,<\/em> apparently, is very attractive to young evangelicals. \u00a0Christ’s presence is not limited to scripture, she says: “I have encountered the presence of Jesus in fellowship with other Christians, among the poor and disenfranchised, as I eat the bread and drink the wine. And if this makes me a mystic, then count me in!”<\/p>\n

All too often our liturgical ecumenical dialogue leaves evangelicals out, but if this is the future of evangelicalism, then count me in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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