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Losing the Youth: The Questionable Inevitable Apostasy of Evangelical Youth

October 6th, 2006 | 6 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

This article in the NY Times is going to get a lot of play, I think, in the Christian blogosphere. The article highlights concerns among evangelical leaders about the spiritual state of evangelical youth, something that I am very much in tune with and likewise am quite concerned about.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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