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Are "Evangelical Elites" Compromisers—or Just Not Fundamentalists?

A letter to the editor of First Things

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Samuel D. James
Apr 08, 2022
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First Things magazine asked me to submit a letter to the editor for the April issue, responding to Aaron Renn’s essay from March, “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism.” Below is the letter I wrote as it appears in the magazine.

As a lifelong Southern Baptist who has worked in two major evangelical institutions, I appreciated Aaron Renn’s informative pers…

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