And you often say that people don’t always leave the church because of what Christians believe, but instead because they don’t think Christians actually believe what they claim to believe. And in many cases they’re starting to question not whether the church is too strict, but whether the church actually holds to a morality at all. I think the fragmentation that’s happening to the evangelical movement right now is actually a necessary precondition for renewal. I won’t give up on the word “evangelical.” There was a time when I did. I wrote an op-ed in 2016 in The Washington Post called “Why This Election Makes Me Hate the Word ‘Evangelical’” — but I’ve come around.

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Persons: don’t, “ I’m, I’m, ”, Tim Keller, it’s, Tim, North Americans don’t, we’ve Organizations: The Washington Post, University of Chicago, North Americans Locations: evangelicalism, The, Africa, Asia, Latin America