How We Got Here

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. 

YouTube video

First Things depends on its subscribers and supporters. Join the conversation and make a contribution today.

Click here to make a donation.

Click here to subscribe to First Things.

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

Stevenson’s Treasure 

Algis Valiunas

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) belongs at the head of a select company of writers renowned in their…

Fact-Checking the New Yorker

George Weigel

Back in the day, when the New Yorker set the standard for literary elegance among serious American…

On the Pleasure of Admiring

Elizabeth C. Corey

The great essayist William Hazlitt observed that there is pleasure in hating. “Without something to hate,”...