Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America

Believers: A Journey into Evangelical America, by Jeffrey Sheler - Sept 26

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It is only in this context that these undercover field trips into the wilds of Christianity by the Ivy League make sense, much like the first Westerners to make the Haj to Mecca in the 18th and 19th centuries or tourists today visiting the Amish country in Lancaster, PA. The minority culture doesn't need to infiltrate the majority culture, it is surrounded and immersed in it and in fact draws some of its strength from its reasoned and explicit separatism.

Not only has Christianity become a minority, it is now as much an oddity to mainstream America as the horse-and-buggy Amish. There is one key difference between Roose and Welch: She is not only uneducated about Christian texts, principles, and beliefs, but actively opposed to anything attributed to Christians. How does it feel to be the most popular attraction at the zoo?

This is the emotion I struggled with as I read Welch and Roose's book. At times I teetered between anger and incredulity, especially when Welch states, with apparent sincerity, after a year of misrepresentation, dissembling, and outright lies in her closest personal relationships: We'll always be trying to drown each other out. Threaten them, ridicule them, celebrate their humiliations, and you create a toxic dump, fertile ground for a ferocious adversary to rise, again and again. But listen to them, include them in the public conversation, understand the sentiments behind their convictions, and you invent the possibility of kinship.

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And these were Welch's closest personal relationships, as she admits after she broke away from Thomas Road after her year in Darkest Evangelicalism, suffering a temporary crisis of conscience and periodic nightmares over her lost friendships and mentors. Perhaps this is a fundamental difference between Christians and atheists--atheists are apparently able to base personal relationships on despicable lies, while the Christians who were most hurt by her lies responded with love and forgiveness when they learned the truth. There is another essential difference between Roose's semester at Liberty, and Welch's year at Thomas Road that puts Welch's effort in a less favorable light--the relationship of a student with a university, while it may have personal, cultural, political, and spiritual components one's deepest emotional allegiances in these areas are often formed during the college years is at core an economic one--it is an exchange of money for education.

While he wasn't honest with himself, Roose obtained the education he paid for and hurt himself more than anyone else with his false pretenses. On the other hand, the relationship of a member to a church is a personal relationship, an exchange of personal, cultural, political, and spiritual valued in honesty, integrity and trust--the standard rate of exchange of personal relationships. Welch's kinship was a false relationship paid for with counterfeit money that hurt not only herself but those she spent a year befriending with actively and intentionally misleading lies.

As Welch's best friend at church said, when told by Welch in preparation for publication of this book that Welch tried to lie as little as possible, "you lied about the most important stuff. In all this unburdening about the problem with the premise at the core of Welch's book, I have said little about the quality of the book itself.

It is well written, interesting to read, and often paints Christians in flattering terms, much like Roose's book we are, after all, the most popular attraction at the zoo for a reason. Welch makes the people we meet interesting and three dimensional and makes no attempt to whitewash her own thought processes as she finds herself enjoying the "feeling X" of Christianity while still disbelieving the theology and truth of it.

But, like a long calculation that is wrong because all the inputs except the first is correct, I can applaud the effort but ultimately I cannot rate it more than three stars. Welch's willingness to lie and defraud so many people for so long displays a disrespect for her subjects such as that that is now widely recognized and excoriated in those earlier Westerrn accounts of the Haj and in boorish tourists trampling the Amish tradition in Lancaster, PA.

Until Christians are accorded this respect by Welch and others of her faith, I cannot endorse this book. Jun 30, Bookworm rated it liked it Shelves: I saw several reviews of this in the blogosphere and I enjoyed reading Kevin Roose's The Unlikely Disciple which I recommend and read pre-blog , which seemed similar. His was only for a semester while hers was more long-term. I was pleased to see it in my library but this book seriously underwhelmed me.

I found Welch's introduction condescending as if evangelicals were lesser than her and those like her and were possibly not even human. But to her surprise, they turn out to be mostly nice people who struggle and mess up just like everyone else! I'm technically an evangelical Christian although more liberal than those that Welch met and I'm pretty confident that fundamentalists of all stripes, atheists, agnostics, pagans, etc, are just people who are in many ways similar to me.

I was also concerned with her deceit; while I've read that she didn't begin this book with a contract, she got it in the middle of writing, I feel like it was written for her profit. I was also uncomfortable with her decision to be baptized without believing. Baptism is important to the Christian faith and I believe very strongly that it is wrong to be baptized without believing.

I don't know why she couldn't have attended the church and worked from there without going so far in her deception. I did identify with her somewhat though in terms of not quite understanding all of the Christian-ese and being uncomfortable praying out loud as I have only been a Christian for two years. Her fear of evangelizing was also convicting for me; I believe in my faith and I should be less hesitant about sharing it with the world. I also identified when she talked about how friendly and warm and nice everyone seems and how it's a little scary.

My college Christian community is filled with the nicest, most caring people I've ever met and I've been afraid that they'll look at me and find me wanting but instead I've found myself growing and emulating them well, really emulating Jesus. She also had valid concerns about the homophobia which appears. I'm in a more liberal place than she is but even so I've seen disconcerting happenings of homophobia within my particular Christian community.

I found the basic premise somewhat insulting and I didn't think it was particularly well-written. I like the plainness and color. Jan 26, Ross Blocher rated it really liked it. I very much enjoyed Gina Welch's year-plus foray into the world of Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church - it rings true to my own Evangelical upbringing on many levels. This surprised me, as I was raised in California and figured the Virginia counterpart should be far more extreme.

Instead, it felt quite familiar. I also am in the rare position to sympathize with her methodology, as I have joined a number of religious groups as part of a podcast I co-host and suffered some of the same dil I very much enjoyed Gina Welch's year-plus foray into the world of Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church - it rings true to my own Evangelical upbringing on many levels.

I also am in the rare position to sympathize with her methodology, as I have joined a number of religious groups as part of a podcast I co-host and suffered some of the same dilemmas that attend undercover investigations.

Welch's writing is beautifully descriptive, and she has an amazing knack for drawing quick analogies to relatable situations. If I had to gripe, I might say this descriptiveness is sometimes taken to excess, and often unnecessarily flowery. She has a rich internal life, brought to the page with almost frantic descriptions of her own thoughts, as well as the thoughts she suspects to be coursing through the heads of others.

Had I been privy to her predicament at the time, my advice might have been to calm down and not assume so much on the part of others. Perhaps too much time was spent anticipating the reactions of her Christian friends and preemptively attempting to mollify their concerns. Our secular Jewish tour guide goes to great lengths to humanize the right-wing Christians she meets, and paints full portraits of individuals who are kind and caring, yet very devoted to a particular view of the world.

While she set out to observe, I feel she was open enough to have become a true believer if the evidence added up. It simply didn't, and Welch can't be faulted for being honest. As she repeatedly notes in the book, you can't force yourself to believe a proposition. At the same time, she found many things to like, and grew personally as a result.

A recommended read for anyone interested in modern Evangelism. Jul 15, Alli Treman rated it it was amazing. Growing up Protestant, I've always thought of Evangelicals as the "wrong" or "misguided" kind of Christians, and a label to push as far away as possible. I think, despite my own background and beliefs, I would've gone into the experiment with similar prejudices as Gina. It was interesting to me to read because she would write with confusion about things I understood, like singing along with hymns with the words projected in front and people raising their hands, but then it would take a turn into Growing up Protestant, I've always thought of Evangelicals as the "wrong" or "misguided" kind of Christians, and a label to push as far away as possible.

It was interesting to me to read because she would write with confusion about things I understood, like singing along with hymns with the words projected in front and people raising their hands, but then it would take a turn into something that didn't fit in with my picture of Christianity at all: Jerry Falwell's requests for money, for one thing.

In my experience, the "collection" as it's called is something that happens with little preamble. There is always a statement about what the money goes for, which only seemed to happen sometimes at Thomas Road, there was some expectation that it was going directly to God and that rewards in heaven would be directly proportional--something that set off my WRONG!

The homophobic messages sent up my wrong! I understood what Gina was getting at, though, that because the Thomas Road members believed so fervently that saying the "sinners prayer" was the way out of a horrible punishment that lasted for eternity they want to prevent that happening to as many people as possible. While my own experiences of "Feeling X" have been far and few between, this revelation of Gina's made me, too, realize that evangelicals are people and while they have misguided ideas about a lot of things, they not all of them, but in many cases have the best intentions.

It's got me thinking about if there's some way we could present ideas of tolerance to evangelicals in a more kinder, tolerant way. It rang true and it got me thinking. Jul 25, Lauren Hopkins rated it really liked it. As another Ivy League educated atheist with a curiosity about the Christian faith and any religion, really I was especially interested in seeing another's take on the evangelical world.

I was very glad to see that Welch went in not to mock, but with an open mind and heart even though she had doubts. She does a great job describing people and events without judging; she manages to put aside any bias and ethnocentris I loved Gina Welch's tales of going undercover at Thomas Road Baptist Church.

She does a great job describing people and events without judging; she manages to put aside any bias and ethnocentrism to show a fair and accurate portrayal of the church, faith, and members. Her journey starts to come to an end during a mission trip to Alaska with TRBC members to "win souls. Though the whole book is wonderfully written, the most heartfelt part is the Epilogue in which Welch describes going back to the church in to talk to Ray and Alice about her true intentions. Their reactions are incredible despite Welch's earlier dishonesty, and you really need to learn here that it doesn't matter what religion we are - people are people and should love and care for one another despite any ideological differences.

That's the one thing we need to take away from this book and others like it Kevin Roose's "The Unlikely Disciple" for example -- if everyone was this open to seemingly opposing lifestyles and belief systems, the world would be a better place. Feb 02, Sarah Rosenberger rated it it was ok Shelves: First of all, this journey isn't really as extraodinary or revolutionary as Welch thinks. Not only has it been done before, it's been done with the exact same subset of evangelicals see: Exposes or explorations of contemporary Evangelical Christianity have been around for years and publishers keep churning out more all the time.

This book is just one more addition to that body of work. So how does it compare to the others? My biggest problem with this bo First of all, this journey isn't really as extraodinary or revolutionary as Welch thinks. My biggest problem with this book was how Welch herself came off: Yes, we get it - you went to Yale. If this was supposed to be a look at Thomas Road Christians, there was way too much "me, me, me," and if it was meant to be the chronicle of Welch's faith journey, there was too much churchy minutiae and too many interchangable characters.

Also, typically a journey takes you somewhere, and I don't think Welch really got anywhere. She apparently learned that not all Christians are the same and some can even be friends with athiests. Not exactly groundbreaking news Thanks to my dislike of the narrator and the been-here-already-read-this feeling I couldn't shake, this one sat on my shelf for months before I finally finished it. If it had been the first book I'd read on the topic, I probably would have liked it more. Good for East Coast liberals who want to get a frontline look at Evangelical Christians.

May 16, Georgetowner rated it liked it. I hardly know how to rate this First of all, I believe her. I spent two years at Thomas Road and all her details ring very true to me.

Believers : A Journey into Evangelical America by Jeffery L. Sheler (2007, Paperback)

Secondly, her condescending attitude through much of the book, especially the first half, was palpable and somewhat painful to me. Thirdly, I had left TRBC by the time she arrived so she gave me a window into events that happened after I left, but that I knew about and that was priceless. Four I hardly know how to rate this Fourthly, her betrayal to the lovely people she became friends with is unthinkable! There is a presumption in friendship that what I am saying to you is not going to be printed in an expose' book!

When she finally comes clean with them, they extend forgiveness, but it is not rocket science to know that some things that were said and published would not have been said if they had known she was not present in the capacity of a friend, but a essentially a spy. Lastly, nothing she uncovers is all that remarkable except possibly to her own intolerant, judgemental self who discovers these people are kind.

Glad she had an eye-opening, but it was totally at the expense of others. She felt guilty at the end, as well she should have! I will say I thought Gina is a good writer and I sometimes found her imagery very well done. Apr 26, Tammy marked it as did-not-finish Shelves: I only read 50 or so pages of this one before I decided to put it down.

The author grated on my nerves too much. She decides to go "undercover" a term that irritates me to start with, as Evangelicals are not some secret, mysterious society but apparently does no research and learns nothing about them before jumping in. She appears to be believe that all Evangelicals are carbon-copies of each other in how they dress, talk, and think.

And she comes across as incredibly smug, in the "these people I only read 50 or so pages of this one before I decided to put it down. And she comes across as incredibly smug, in the "these people are so cute and naive with their absurd beliefs, but of course I know so much more than they do" way. If she views herself as a journalist, then I would recommend that she learn to be more objective, do her research about her subjects, and show more integrity see others' comments about her participation in church sacraments in which she does not believe.

Maybe the author grew as a person as a result of this project, but there was no way I was going to read the entire book to find out. Jun 24, Robyn Stuber rated it liked it. While the author wrote very well, I am disturbed by the fact that she blatantly lied to and deceived so many people. I also did not feel that the book ended well, as she started out trying to answer a question and yet could not answer it or even give it closer. May 18, Rhonda rated it really liked it Shelves: Chose this book because I thought it was a look into the world of evangelicals I didn't realize it was an undercover investigation into their lives by an atheist, a very skeptical atheist,young Gina.

It turned out to be quite enlightening, a very open look from the outside in, complete with sarcasm, criticism, and honesty! She travels to Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church once, sometimes twice a week, to participate in classes and services, even goes on a mission trip to Alaska for a we Chose this book because I thought it was a look into the world of evangelicals She travels to Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church once, sometimes twice a week, to participate in classes and services, even goes on a mission trip to Alaska for a week with a small group.

She gets into the nitty-gritty of the conversion process, the praying, the witnessing, baptism, serving. Yet she was faking it. She developed several friendships and became guilty for deceiging them. I was never bored with this, it was well-written and I couldn't wait to see how she felt at the end of the book. TONS of favorite quotes: In it I found Thomas Road's nebulously articulated purpose to 'bring glory to God by making a positive difference in the lives of people' and it's mission statement to 'win the lost, and connect them to the local church where they will develop into servants and worshippers of God.

In other words, the nonbeliever arrives at the knowledge rather than having it applied. With Christians, the microwave effect worked its powers on me, and in time, I was nuked into understanding. Relationships were deepened in cycles. When first meeting people, you define your relationship with them.

When you come to know and understand them, you may come to trust them and commit yourself to them. Once that happens, you redefine your relationship and the cycle begins againdefine, know and understand, trust and commit. The relationship cycle is the same between man and God.

When you're spiritually immature, when you're a new believer, you can't instantly have a deep relationship with God. It grows over time through the cycle. Address, awe, succor, protection, guidance, gratitude. Amen " "You cannot become a Christian by good works. We're not saved by works. We're not saved by a combination of faith AND works. Being a good person couldn't make you a Christian, but being a Christian was guaranteed to make you into a good person.

Storms are inevitable, they are for our testing, and for our discipline. If you've never been to a place in your life when all human hope was taken away, the scripture says, brace yourself. You're likely to go there someday. But so long as we were Christians, we needn't be afraid. A newspaper had recently asked Dr. Falwell if his pulpit was bulletproof.

No, he replied, but I am. And so is every believer until he has finished the work God has called him to do. Because God made the storms, he also controlled the extent of their damage. No waters can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies. Just because things don't make sense to you and me doesn't mean they don't make sense to God.

Even when we cannot trace his hand, we can always trust his heart. Trials and calamities are God's tools to perfect our life and character. And it didn't take them years to do it. Their minds seemed uncluttered by remorse or bitterness, unhaunted by the idea of what could have been.

It wasn't only because they accepted hardship as a character-building rpocess given by God, it was that they believed they'd already been forgiven for what they'd done by the only one who mattered. Though there's no way one can determine the depth and purity of another's belief, one look at Jerry Falwell's life showed that he was no hypocrite: But for Christians, death is different. For Christians, in a way, death is tidy: And ultimately, the dead are better off. Having a place to guard against loneliness, to feel there are others like you.

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For some of the people I knew at Thomas Road, it seemed that without church they would have no community at all. And without community, I told my mother, a person might risk losing a grip on the humanity of others, might look into the eyes of humans as if humans were wild animals. I was beginning to understand the need for certainty, the desire to tighten the straps on the universe by claiming to have a handbook written by the guy to made it.

Sometimes I too wanted something to make the wilderness seem hospitableor at least manageable. But more specifically I found parts of the Bible helpful even for me, and I thought it was too bad Jesus had been hijacked by religion and politics since the Sermon on the Mount seemed like a pretty good moral code. Jesus had laid out a beautiful plan for responsible personhood, I told my mother, and the Sermon was essentially the skeleton of liberal thought.

I thought all these things, and yet she still needn't worry, because thinking them didn't make me a Christian. You are not building up your faith, and you are not studying His word, and you're not obeying His word. You're not doing it! So you have the greatest intentions, but in the end, you build something of no value. I had cultivated intimate friendships on a foundation of lies. That was what I felt worst about: I didn'ti have the stomach for meals and I didn't want to see anyone at all.

When I slept, I had unspeakable nightmares. I felt fluish with self loathing. I wasnt' sure she ewas wrong, but I knew that wasn't the whole story. I couldn't work back from who I was or what I believed, and in truth, I didn't want to. I preferred analysis, reason, and the satisfying realism of hard truths. MOral structure might have been the key to happiness, but maybe happiness wasn't the only thing worth unlocking. God-loveI felt I finally saw it. Human love was this awkward thing. Sometimes I made you feel desperate and crazed, as though you'd have to become the person to ever have enough of them.

But God-love, the love in the psalm, the love in 'Jesus loves you'that was Mobius strip love, love with no beginning or end, love that was both calm and complete, unflinching in the face of anything you could reveal about yourself. Who wouldn't want that? I certainly did, especially in that momentknowing the secrets in my own heart, knowing that soon they'd be revealed. But wanting it still didn't make me believe it. After describing a similarly aggravating grocery store scenario, Wallace gave this advice: Not that that mustical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it.

I was going to choose to see the mystical oneness. And once I started to see it that way, loving them wasn't very hard to do. In some sense, these days I'm just as I always was: There is no part of my that's me forever. And yet everyone who knows me says I'm different.

I think it's because in the part of me that's me for now, there IS something new, an invisible socket, a phantom limb extending from it: I can sense them even now. May 13, Vicwelborn rated it liked it Shelves: Helped for me that the last part was in Alaska a lot. I think I was actually feeling the emotions the author intended to evoke.

After book club meeting i dropped my rating.. So there was a distinct level of just not researching the book. Still think it was worth the read.. Mar 29, Tim Larison rated it really liked it. Yes in my younger days I was a conservative Bible believer. Over the years my spiritual outlook transformed to a much more open, loving, and inclusive world view.

Exposed to the teaching in classes, she was unfazed. What about owning up to mistakes? Rather by infiltrating the fundamentalist camp, taking their classes, and even going on a mission trip, she gained a new understanding of the Bible Believers. And I liked being around them: I came around on the other side of that time thinking that I still had the opportunity to do what I initially set out to do, which was write something that would promote tolerance.

To write something that would help people like me feel less nervous about evangelical Christians. To show them how I came to terms with believers. Her book helped me to see I could still have a relationship with the people of my fundamentalist past, even if our beliefs are quite different. Jan 23, Heather rated it really liked it. Before I talk about my thoughts on this book, let me explain my own personal beliefs and where I was coming from when I decided to read it. Overall I found almost exactly what I expected in this book.

Welch surprises herself by learning that most of the Christians she met and became quite close friends with are actually incredibly wonderful, kind, caring people. She found evangelicals to be fun, interesting, basically normal people who also happened to have a relationship with God — which is of course what I hoped she would find!

But I found it so refreshing that she was able to sit back and examine how her expectations of what these people would be like turned out to be wrong in most cases. This stuff made me sad, although it seemed to be more of a generational thing than anything else — the younger crowd almost never fell into any of these patterns, but the older members of the church almost always did. So that made me hopeful that as time goes on, some of this negative stuff will change.

Either way, it was somewhat eye-opening to see how some of the craziest things that have been said about this church and its leader were actually true! In the Land of Believers is an extremely well-written novel and I really admired Welch for doing what she did in order to bring the reader this piece of investigative literature. I was left, in the end, feeling a bit disappointed that she draws no real conclusions or ties things together in any kind of way.

Again, I really liked this book. And for those of you who enjoy books about different religions and these investigative memoir type reads, this is a great choice. Apr 02, Michelle Lancaster rated it liked it Shelves: And you're never more like Christ than when you're forgiving the unforgivable. You can see anything you want if you've already decided what you're looking at. Welch was raised a secular Jew by a single mother in Berkeley, California. She is a Yale graduate. She teaches English at George Washington University. She is a practicing atheist.

I just wrote that last sentence and I'm not sure what it means. All of which I point out simply to say that she is not a typical attendee at church. And certainly not an evangelical Christian church. She went undercover in the temple of the Moral Majority in Lynchburg, Virginia in the guise of a seeker.

Welch successfully pitched the book idea for her to go incognito into the land of Evangelical Christians and return to tell the tale. Which I find a little weird because after all they aren't vegetable cult worshippers or something. Welch spent years at this endeavor. She was baptized; learned to appreciate Christian rock; studied her bible; joined the singles ministry; made friends; even went on a mission trip to Alaska. Gina Welch surprised me. This book is not the book I thought it would be.

Welch expected to dislike the people she met. She expected to dislike the teachings. She expected to dislike the theology and doctrine.

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She expected to disagree with the politics. Welch also surprised herself. Her beliefs did not change fundamentally. But she made friends. She came to enjoy the sense of belonging. She felt the concern of people who genuinely practiced what they preached. She came to appreciate the teachings of a historical Jesus; a man whose values already meshed with hers. And then she had to confess to her pastor and her new friends that she was an impostor. This is the story of Ms. Welch's exploration; her answers; and the questions yet satisfied.

This is a good book that could have been better. Also, I believe he's right that Evangelicals cannot be lumped together into one "camp" so to speak. There are Evangelicals on "both sides of the aisle" politically speaking; Believers in Jesus Christ as the way the truth and the life in every Protestant and Catholic church Going to church,by t A very revealing look at Evangelicals in America and I could certainly relate to his descriptions.

There are Evangelicals on "both sides of the aisle" politically speaking; Believers in Jesus Christ as the way the truth and the life in every Protestant and Catholic church Going to church,by the way, does not make one a Christian. Evangelicals are individuals who happen to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. I highly recommend this book. Readers interested in religion in America today. Articulate and well-written, but this guy is definitely pitching softballs - he omits a lot of the worst things about fundamentalist churches and organizations in America.

He should have covered the mind-boggling frequency of scandals related to swindling and sexually exploiting vulnerable followers; the anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry that are so prevalent; the anti-intellectualism and anti-science attitudes; and the Machiavellian political agendas and practices, to start with.

Overall Articulate and well-written, but this guy is definitely pitching softballs - he omits a lot of the worst things about fundamentalist churches and organizations in America. Overall an informative read, but grossly partial and incomplete, as noted above. Oct 14, John rated it liked it Shelves: An interesting book, Jeffrey Sheler deserves credit for being so fair. It is a little frustrating that Sheler did in this book so much of what I want to do on our trip around the country. Even our original subtitle for the blog - "a pilgrimage through evangelical America" - is weirdly similar to Sheler's.

Still, Sheler spends most of the book talking to evangelical leaders. I want to focus my own attention on the rank and file, and that seems like it could be a significant difference when I write An interesting book, Jeffrey Sheler deserves credit for being so fair. I want to focus my own attention on the rank and file, and that seems like it could be a significant difference when I write my own book.

Feb 17, Pam rated it liked it. I didn't find this all that enlightening. I was hoping for a look into the lives of regular evangelicals. I already know enough about their politics, what I don't know is how it's like to go to your job and raise your family if you follow that faith or those faiths. He also makes a point of saying that some of us believe that "those people" are stupid and they're NOT, but he never makes a convincing case for that not that they come across as stupid, it's just never addressed either way, why D I didn't find this all that enlightening.

He also makes a point of saying that some of us believe that "those people" are stupid and they're NOT, but he never makes a convincing case for that not that they come across as stupid, it's just never addressed either way, why DO they believe things that seem so absurd to many of us? I still don't know Jan 19, Diane rated it really liked it. This book, written by a journalist, provides a short history of evangelicalism in America, as well as a number of contemporary vignettes about the movement.

Most of it is available elsewhere, but he presents a good introduction. In addition, the history provides some insight into how evangelicalism's relationship with American culture has changed over time. Sep 13, Rod rated it liked it Shelves: A book about American christians. But for the rest of us non-American Christians: Christians are people too. Mar 26, JayBee rated it did not like it Shelves: Dec 13, Kirk Shrewsbury rated it liked it Shelves: A fair-minded survey of evangelical leaders, mostly by means of journalistic interviews.

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