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Sarah Mccammon

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religion-and-spirituality1 year ago

"White Evangelical Support for Trump: A Conversation with NPR's Sarah McCammon"

NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon, who grew up in an evangelical Christian community, discusses her personal journey of leaving the evangelical church and her observations on the culture of Christianity. Her new book, "The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church," explores the social movement of young people disillusioned with the church. McCammon reflects on the difficulty of defining "evangelical," her upbringing with a Christian worldview, her community's beliefs about pregnancy and abortion, and the challenge of filling in the gaps left from her upbringing as she distanced herself from the church.

religion-and-society1 year ago

Exvangelicals: Faith, Politics, and Leaving the Church

NPR correspondent Sarah McCammon reflects on her evangelical upbringing and decision to leave it behind, citing the 2016 embrace of Donald Trump by white evangelicals as a turning point. Her book, The Exvangelicals, explores the growing movement of younger Americans leaving evangelical churches, drawing from her own experiences and those of others. McCammon hopes the book will resonate with exvangelicals, provide insight for those unfamiliar with evangelicalism, and encourage empathy and understanding from those still entrenched in the movement.