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Rachel Held Evans blogged about millennials and the future of Christianity, getting lots of reactions. David Hayward responded with this cartoon: Kevin Davis, Hemant Mehta, Andii Bowsher, and Allan Bevere also discussed the topic. John Hawthorne shared developing hypotheses about Mainlines and Evangelicals, while Martin Marty reconsiders the mainline legacy. Chris Henrichsen posted \u201cAnother Liberal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,136,163],"tags":[1846,1880,6877,7448,9668,13150,13170],"class_list":["post-16183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-religion","category-evangelicals","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-christianity-religion","tag-church","tag-mainline","tag-millennials","tag-protestant","tag-unitarian","tag-universalist"],"yoast_head":"\n
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