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Evans is not the only progressive distancing herself from the evangelical label though. Some like Nish Weiseth<\/a> and Micah J. Murray<\/a> are resolving to quit evangelicalism altogether while others, like Zach Hoag, are committing to reinventing it<\/a> (a \u201cNewer New Evangelicalism<\/a>\u201d perhaps?). Despite these resolutions \u2014 and the accompanying slew of tweets, blog posts and Facebook updates \u2013progressives may have a harder time leaving evangelicalism than they think. In fact, many are perpetuating the very things about evangelicalism that they profess to deplore. Post-evangelicals are still operating within evangelical paradigms.<\/p>\n

A Brief History<\/b><\/p>\n

Millennials tend to associate evangelicalism with an odd collection of American religiosity, traditional mores, and a \u201cGod-said-it-I-believe-it\u201d reductionism. In many ways, their understanding has been shaped by growing up in the culture wars of the 1980s and 90s, and has been exacerbated by a religious consumerism unique to capitalism.<\/p>\n

Step back a generation or two and you\u2019ll find an evangelicalism less defined by politics and more defined by a commitment to the relevancy and authority of Scripture. Step back yet one more generation and evangelicalism is embodied in cross-denominational cooperation, the global missions movement, and social reform. Step back again and you\u2019ll discover an evangelicalism that was birthed in the revivals of the Great Awakening.<\/p>\n

Just as our DNA is the product of the generations before us, today\u2019s evangelicals carry traits, not only of their mothers and fathers, but of their grandmothers and grandfathers and great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers. What many millennials understand to be evangelicalism\u2014some kind of quasi-Protestant, flag-waving, gun-toting, \u2018mericanism\u2013simply isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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