The Next Chapter by American Express Business Class

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The message preached by evangelical Christians and other Orthodox communities of faith is more out of step with the direction of the culture than would have been the case in the 1950s. Secularization, just sociologically defined, is the decline of the influence of religion but in the case of the United States of historic Christian theism in the culture.

Why we can’t understand this moment in politics without first understanding the transformation of American evangelicalism.

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