![]() ![]() David Gushee (author of “Still Christian” and “Changing Our Mind”) offers such a way in his new book, “ After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity.” This approachable yet ethical work - written after a lifetime of leadership in evangelicalism, higher education, and academic professional societies - is the culmination of Gushee’s entire personal and professional journey. How should these post-evangelicals move forward? Many wonder if they should leave Christianity and Jesus altogether.īut there is a path forward, a way to reconcile the beliefs we have as Christians out of the maze of evangelicalism into a new kind of Christianity, one that cultivates a living relationship with Christ and provides us with a morally robust faith. Many of those who have left have branded themselves #exvangelicals, exvangelicals, or post-evangelicals. White evangelicalism, in particular, has seen many leave the faith in droves, especially after white evangelical support of Donald Trump coalesced during the 2016 election. population comprised adults who had been raised evangelical but had either switched to another religious tradition or no longer identified with any religious tradition at all, roughly 25 million Americans. LOUISVILLE - In 2014, the Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape study revealed that nearly 8% of the U.S. ‘After Evangelicalism’ explores what comes next for the disillusioned by Westminster John Knox Press | Special to Presbyterian News Service ![]()
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