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Many evangelicals have also been progressive, and sometimes even radical – in doctrine, in ethics, in politics, in art, and more: whatever gets the job done.

Bible translation projects lead to the preservation of languages that were previously on the verge of extinction, especially in remote parts of the world. For instance, "The peoples of polar North America receive a Bible in Inuktitut. Evangelicals have been in the forefront not only of Bible translation, but in the reduction of oral languages to writing and in the preservation of native languages."

Makes me want to learn more ecclesiology.

Ecclesiology

By the 2020s, roughly half the world’s evangelicals were in Africa, a quarter were in Asia, and almost another quarter lived in the Americas—leaving relatively few in Europe and Oceania. Thus, even as Christianity in general was fading in Europe, in Greater Britain, and in North America, evangelicalism was burgeoning almost everywhere else—even in parts of the Islamic corridor… (84)

It is commitment to Trinitarian theology and to the authority of the Bible in doctrine, piety, and practice that marks off evangelicals from liberals. And it is commitment to conversionism and mission, and the populism and pragmatism that those commitments entail, that marks off evangelicals from conservatives—whether Amish farmers, Anglican “prayer book” devotees, or rigorously traditional Lutherans (46).

The typical evangelical of the 2020s is not a “he.” She is also not white, and she is…living somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa or in a Latin American city….She rarely discusses social or political issues, but she beams when she relates how her husband’s conversion ended his alcohol abuse on wild weekends. This is your statistically typical evangelical Christian. (1)