In Depth:  Barry Seagren

Edith Rachel Merritt Seville Schaeffer was born in Wenzhou, China, to missionary parents working in the China Inland Mission.

Though she lived in China only until the age of six, she retained vivid memories and a life-long love of China. The family moved back to the States and, while attending Beaver College, she met Francis Schaeffer. They were married in 1935. He had three pastorates in the States in the then Bible Presbyterian Church, with her always completely involved. Their daughters Priscilla, Susan and Deborah were born during those years while their son Franky was born in Switzerland in 1952.

Barry Seagren finds that the parallels between Islamic extremists and evangelical Christians are too close for comfort.

The term fundamentalist has always had negative connotations, and especially so since 9/11.

At the Evangelical Ministry Assembly in 1994, Mark Ashton and David Peterson put a mental grenade in my head which has been going off ever since. This article is my attempt to gather up some of the pieces.

The word 'worship' has taken on a new meaning. 20 years ago, if the guy up front said: 'Now we're going to have a time of worship,' no one would have known what to expect. No one ever 'had a time of worship' back then.