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  • Evangelicals for Social Action drops ‘evangelical,’ calls term too 'political’

    09/17/2020 8:07:38 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 09/17/2020 | Leonardo Blair
    Lamenting that the term “evangelical” is now too “largely political” and hasn't been helpful in conveying the character of their organization, Evangelicals for Social Action, a Christian scholar-activist group started in 1973, announced Monday that they have changed their name to Christians for Social Action. “Today the word ‘evangelical’ in the popular mind has largely political connotations. For significant numbers of people, it signifies a right-wing political movement irrevocably committed to Donald Trump. Many young people raised in evangelical churches are turning away in disgust–abandoning evangelical churches and even sometimes the Christian faith itself. And the larger society thinks of...