Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

Straight White American Jesus · Jun 26, 2023 · 40m

Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two decades outside of it. In Testimony, Ward tells the engaging story of his upbringing in, and eventual break from, an influential evangelical church in the 1980s and 1990s. Ward sheds light on the evangelical movement's troubling political and cultural dimensions, tracing the ways in which the Jesus People movement was seduced by materialism and other factors to become politically captive rather than prophetic. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the…