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![]() ![]() Īt the same time, I know that most white evangelicals voted for a misogynistic racist for president. ![]() Surely they are not primarily focused on the “hegemony of white Christian men over and against the flourishing of others.” Piety and evangelicalism very much seemed to be the focus. ![]() Surely those places, where I felt myself flourish, were good, are good. I am grateful for my time in those spaces and for the people who inhabited them with me.Īnd so it’s hard not to bristle a bit when they’re defined as part of a white nationalist movement. I haven’t spent as much time in evangelical spaces in recent years, but evangelicalism very much remains part of who I am. That was my world, and it was in that world that I developed my own faith in Jesus Christ. I grew up within the subculture of American evangelicalism, in YoungLife, in InterVarsity, within an evangelical-leaning Presbyterian congregation. I can’t separate myself from this history either. She inhabited an evangelicalism that was rotten and wanted to flourish outside of it. ![]() Butler identifies herself as a “former evangelical.” White evangelicals treated her like an outsider within their spaces, and so she eventually left those spaces. This is an impassioned and prophetic engagement with American evangelicalism. ![]()
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