Evangelicals are cringe. I have personally been dealing with this problem ever since I had to convince my parents to let me listen to Creed in middle school, but you can find Francis Schaeffer talking about it several decades ago and the most important contribution to the question was probably James Davison Hunter’s book To Change the World (2010).
Aaron Renn is not the first person to observe evangelicalism’s cringe problem, which he helpfully observes is not merely behaving in uncomfortable or tasteless ways, but as a tendency to “view evangelical culture as inferior to mainstream elite culture, particularly in its urban variety, and see that as the standard.” He will surely not be the last to observe this, either.
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