A Movement in Crisis

Fr. Larry Hart

The Criteria
I once took a test, meant to be humorous, that identified me as an ex-fundamentalist radical with neo-orthodox leanings. So I recently read with considerable personal interest Alan Jacob’s article in the The Atlantic, “Evangelical Has Lost Its Meaning.” Jacob’s article, which is actually a sort of review of Thomas Kidd’s book, Who Is an Evangelical: The History of a Movement in Crisis. Jacob’s article, like Kidd’s book, has to do with what these two professors at Baylor University see and discuss, over carnitas and guacamole at their favorite taco restaurant, as their complicated relationship with an American evangelical Christianity in crisis. Continue reading