Last week the news spread quickly among evangelicals: InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, one of the nation’s largest evangelical college ministries, had purportedly endorsed the #BlackLivesMatter movement during a major missions conference in front of 16,000 college-aged students. This was big news in some circles.
Although many evangelical organizations have assumed prominent roles in cultural debates over issues such as abortion and sexuality, fewer have publicly engaged in questions of racial justice with consistency. Writing for Religion News Service, Tobin Grant suggested that this could be “a watershed moment in American evangelicalism.”
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