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White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars

  • Written by Terry Shoemaker, Lecturer, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
imageYounger evangelicals are openly questioning the religious and political traditions of their parents and grandparents.Julie Bennett/AP

Since the 1970s, white American evangelicals – a large subsection of Protestants who hold to a literal reading of the Bible – have often managed to get specific privileges through their political...

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