“The New Yorker’s” Politically Liberal Young Evangelicals

on September 1, 2018

The New Yorker has published a smart if incomplete article saying young Evangelicals are politically more liberal than their parents.

The headline sums up the story nicely:

Millennial Evangelicals Diverge from Their Parents’ Beliefs

The separation of families at the border, climate change, and other progressive causes have galvanized young Christians.

These claims confirm my own experience with elite, educated, young urban upper middle class Evangelicals. My contact with working class young Evangelicals outside of academia is more limited.

(Read rest of column here.)

  1. Comment by Robert Whitten on September 8, 2018 at 11:32 am

    Not surprising, given the state of mis-education today!

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