Testimony - Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation av Jon Ward

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<b>"Ward is consistently clear-sighted and perceptive as he charts a genuinely fascinating personal and spiritual evolution."--</b><b><i>Publishers Weekly<br/></i></b><br/>Jon Ward''s life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two decades outside of it.<br/><br/>In <i>Testimony</i>, Ward<i></i>tells the engaging story of his upbringing in, and eventual break from, an influential evangelical church in the 1980s and 1990s. Ward sheds light on the evangelical movement''s troubling political and cultural dimensions, tracing the ways in which the Jesus People movement was seduced by materialism and other factors to become politically captive rather than prophetic.<br/><br/>A respected journalist, Ward asks uncomfortable but necessary questions, calling those inside and outside conservative Christian circles to embrace truth, complexity, and nuance. He recounts his growing alarm and grief over the last several years as evangelical conservatives