Christianity is declining in the US. You have a lot less people now going to church than were, you know, 10 years ago or 20 years ago. So you have these churches in an ongoing slow motion crisis. And it's just a really difficult long period for a lot of them.
Why we can’t understand this moment in politics without first understanding the transformation of American evangelicalism.
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