Professor David Wells’s career studying evangelical Protestantism has inspired a conference at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary this week on the role of evangelicals in the public square.

Is it different being an evangelical in Massachusetts than somewhere in the Bible Belt?
It undoubtedly is. Here you make a choice whether you want to be an evangelical believer. You have to be serious about it. In the South, it might be more following convention and habit or a family pattern.

You’re not impressed by the high percentage of Americans who say they’re born again.
The more important thing is the loss of Christian substance. In the long run, people who act inconsistently with what they proclaim are far more damaging to the Christian faith than the attacks that atheists launch.

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