bevington divided his crew between the two ships. departed in october and their trip home was very challenging. the resolute was missing her topmast, she was poorly rigged, and they repeatedly ran into bad weather. they finally arrived in new london connecticut on christmas eve of 1855. the suggestion to refit the ship and return it to england came from a wealthy philanthropist henry grenell. he had financed an earlier expedition in search of john franklin. a bill was introduced in congress on june 24, 1856. to authorize the purchase and the restoration of the resolute and $40,000 was appropriated. on november 13, 1856, the resolute set sail for england under the command of naval officer henry hartstein and arrived the summer 12th. here you see queen victoria and her family visiting the ship and being greeted by captain. hartstein. the captain and his presentation said allow me to welcome your majesty on board the resolute and in obedience to the will of my countrymen and of the president of the united states, to restore her to you,

the times e between requires a sense both of bevington's activism, and alienation. distancees the sort of that comes with that. the novelisttener, and essayist, was reflecting on scholar marcus bouring wondering why the church priestley story of the bible but neglects the puts it ro story as he such as that of exile. n the priestley story he said we are predicted primarily as sinners who have good reason to be ashamed of our lives and life becomes a story of guilt, sack ra face and god's forgiveness. he says, we also, speak of liberation and freedom or why not remind us of the story and ask if there are any of us who don't feel sadness and loneliness and lostness from being separated from where we we truly r hearts belong, even if we're not sure where it is to be found or how there, end quote. what he misses is these are the same story. to lost was not due directions but due to god's urposes of judgment and the restoration as the prophets continually reminded the people. see both of oss we those things, sheer grace and god.judgment of ow, an american evangelicalism

the story of bevington who defines evangelical in terms of four planks, bib la six, commitment to authority of the bible, conversionism, commitment to the idea that every person must be personally born again, activism, that christian faith requires people to be active in the world and loving neighbor around them and christian centralism, the cross. and the last is one often assumed but i think it's where we should begin and end this conversation. because any evangelicalism worthy to shape the future must be across shaped, must be called every to repent and believe in christ, must call all people everywhere to demonstrate love and god in our various communities and callings but most importantly evangelicalism must point to the cross. and by the cross, i don't here mean just a shorthand for christian identity or christian theological ideas or theological moral norms. by cross i mean the actual place of the skull outside of the gates of jerusalem. by the cross, i mean what the apostle paul meant when he wrote at corinth, i deliver to you as a first importance in which i also received that chri

i would say, drawing from a english historian named david bevington who studied english evangelicalism in britain, they believe four things. the centrality of the cross. they believe jesus died on the cross for one's sins. they believe in conversion, that you must accept jesus as your savior and have an encounter with him in which he forgives you of your sins. jimmy carter in the 1970's was the first president to call himself a born-again christian. the importance of the bible, being the inspired word of god and authoritative book to live your life by, the teachings of jesus, the new testament and old testament. finally, a sense of activism. taking your faith and sharing it with others and engaging in social causes, engaging in the needs of the world. i think if you can sign off on those four things, and some of them are true of all kinds of christian religions. but when you put those four things together in a package, you have an american evangelical. i tend to define it in a theological way. be a racistrtainly and still be an evangelical, or you could be a conservative or a democrat,

i would say, drawing from a english historian named david bevington who studied english evangelicalismbritain, they believe four things. the centrality of the cross. they believe jesus died on the cross for one's sins. they believe in conversion, that you must accept jesus as your savior and have an encounter with him in which he forgives you of your sins. jimmy carter in the 1970's was the first president to call himself a born-again christian. the importance of the bible, being the inspired word of god and authoritative book to live your life by, the teachings of jesus, the new testament and old testament. finally, a sense of activism. taking your faith and sharing it with others and engaging in social causes, engaging in the needs of the world. i think if you can sign off on those four things, and some of them are true of all kinds of christian religions. but when you put those four things together in a package, you have an american evangelical. i tend to define it in a theological way. be a racistrtainly and still be an evangelical, or you could be a conservative or a democrat, it