Aaron Renn, author of the widely discussed “Three Worlds of American Evangelicalism” essay, responds to criticisms of his essay and examines the development of evangelicalism over the past seventy years. In part one of this two part video essay, he re-addresses the three worlds and stages of development of the evangelical church since the 1950s.

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