C.S. Lewis's Book for Evangelicalism's Future

At the heart of American Evangelicalism has always been an unhealthy alliance between the two types of Americans that Wallace Stegner has described as "boomers" and "stickers." Boomers are the industrialists, the progressives (in the general sense of believing in inevitable social progress, not the more specific political sense), the people who move from work to work, always in motion, always growing, always trying new things in hopes of earning more money or "advancing" society. Stickers are the Hobbits of the world, the people committed to a small way of life who tend to be less concerned with abstractions like "social progress" or even "economic growth," which is a kind of abstraction as well.

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