For its recent article Lift every voice [sic], The Economist polled those who call themselves “evangelical” in a nimble and probably well-advised move to avoid actually having to define the term themselves. In a predominantly political piece, we learn some things we already knew, like “fully 70% of white evangelicals consider themselves Republican.” Then we learn that the writer may not fully understand evangelicalism when we read of a “waning of evangelical institutional authority,” as if regard for institutional authority of the ecclesiastical kind ever was a feature of evangelicalism.
But the more striking observations were along racial lines, Continue reading
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