It, in this case, is evangelicalism.
Rick Phillips, over at the Ref21 blog, comments on Michael Spencer’s (aka Internet Monk) piece on the collapse of evangelicalism. Phillips writes:
. . . what many have been saying for years is true: American evangelicalism is for the most part non-Christian, if biblical definitions are used. Bible doctrine has not been taught for years, and there are largely-populated areas with scores of evangelical churches where one cannot find any serious Bible teaching. Youth ministry has been the pinnacle of this phenomenon, as evangelical youth ministries have tended to be virtually devoid of truth or godliness. So the situation is as bad as we have feared, and I agree with Michael Spenser that in the coming years (really, starting now) this is going to be revealed dramatically.
So why continue to call yourself “The Allicance of Confessing Evangelicals”? Isn’t this sort of like calling yourself “The Alliance of Confessing Modernists”? Hello!?!
(I’d submit a comment over at Ref21 but unlike some blogs, their posts remain above the fray.)
Old Life 
You should know that the Christian Science Monitor has it right. Rick Phillips is wrong. iMonk’s last name is Spencer, not Spenser.
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I guess that’s what we get for taking comments. Correction noted.
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If it makes you feel better about taking comments, I’ll just say that I’m very much in your debt for writing Recovering Mother Kirk and With Reverence and Awe. I read both of those books in the weeks before I left my Bible Church, where I had been a fourth generation member. Had it not been for them, I don’t know that I would have been able to actually leave the church. Even if I had left, I very much doubt that I would have been able to suffer or much less agree with the worship at the only Reformed church in the area, which is RPCNA. So thank you.
That said, I’m pretty sure they don’t call themselves the “Allicance” of anything. Okay, I’ve had my fun, so I’ll knock it off.
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DHG, I think you got spammed here.
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