The evangelical divide
Younger evangelicals have never been in a moral majority. This changes how they see politics
FOR almost 80 years the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship has aspired, in the words of its first president, to take a “definite stand for Christ on the campus.” Yet in August the student body dropped the word “evangelical” from its name. It had become “misunderstood” by students, its current boss said. “There might be certain assumptions that all evangelicals are Republicans”.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “A more moral minority”
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