At Calvary Baptist Church in the nation’s capital, liberal evangelicals recently met to discuss “Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity” (CYNKC). Sporting a TED-style speaker setup combined with workshops, CYNKC provided an eclectic feast of Evangelical Leftist ideas. Although Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, and Mennonite organizations helped sponsor the event, most of the heavy-hitting speakers identified with the emergent church movement. Presenters and listeners alike struggled with passing their postmodern deconstructive theology on to their children.
CYNKD founder and chair Dave Csinos hoped the conference would provide “a new revolution in youth and children’s ministry.” He asked: “How do we pass on our faith without the baggage that forced us to reevaluate things?” Master of ceremonies Melvin Bray similarly cajoled the congregation into “asking new questions,” to look out for “how to hand down the biblical narrative differently now than when we were children.”
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