As American religious life trends rightward, author perceives loss of a stabilizing force
Book review: ‘The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us’ by Ryan P. Burge, ★★★★★
Not all that many years ago, to be an evangelical was to have certain theological beliefs, such as basing personal salvation on accepting Jesus Christ as savior and seeing the Christian Bible as an infallible source of eternal truth.
But the evangelicalism of, say, the 1970s and the 1980s is no m…
