How Distinctive are Evangelicals, really?

'Embattled and Thriving' in 2025.

There’s this book that came out way back in 1998 that has a title that has to rank up there in my favorite ones of all time, “American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving.” It’s by Christian Smith and Michael Emerson. They did a tremendous amount of work to generate the methodological scaffolding of the book including doing in-depth interviews with d…