Cardiff Garcia: We're watching almost every institution in American life fragment and collapse. After talking with Ruth, I wanted to better understand all of this from within the evangelical church. Dr. Al Moller has been an influential evangelical leader for decades. He says part of his own transformation is because of what he feels are the consequences of an increasingly secular world.
Why we can’t understand this moment in politics without first understanding the transformation of American evangelicalism.
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