Shocked. Devastated. And most of all, worried about the future.
That's how I'd describe the tone of the new book Still Evangelical?: Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning, in which evangelical leaders grapple with the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, which galvanized an identity crisis for American evangelicals.
As contributor Shane Claiborne puts it in the book, when 81% of evangelicals voted for a man whose “actions and life choices contradict the core values of evangelicalism itself,” there's a problem: Jesus and the GOP have been whirled up in a blender, and there may not be hope of separating them ever again.
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