Don't Know What Redeems
Every once in a while, I come across an article where the author has worked himself into a tizzy about the declining numbers in Evangelical churches. If this trend continues, they warn, Evanglicalism will be unable to have any kind of voice in the larger society that demands recognition and attention. These articles all seem to conclude that the Evangelical church is under supernatural attack like never before, with influential opinions and movements eroding the very base, and that the proper response to this crisis is to double down on things, telling the faithful to believe even harder in their own rightness and their own righteousness. But then I read things like this , and I find it easier to believe that if Evangelicalism fails to survive into the 22nd century, it won't be because of any fancy "attacks by Satan" -- it will be because Evangelical Christians decided to be assholes. And when I say "decided to be", I don't necessarily mean that they c