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Cultural Christianity Gave Us the Golden Age of CCM

The rise and fall of an evangelical subculture.

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Samuel D. James
Oct 06, 2021
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The debate over cultural Christianity—its benefits, desirability, even its definition—usually happens along an illuminating but fruitless bifocal. For evangelical pastors, cultural Christianity is precisely what they are preaching against most Sundays. It is the spirit of easy believism, unregenerate membership, and theological indifference. But for eva…

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