The term “exvangelical,” a reference to disillusioned evangelicals after Donald Trump commandeered 81% of the white evangelical vote in 2016, has always struck me as contrived and a tad too cute. It’s ...

Evangelicals are an important, and influential, voting bloc for the Republican party, particularly in presidential elections. But NPR’s Sarah McCammon found many Americans are leaving the church and ...

When Sarah McCammon was a child, the evangelical church was her world, and the world was on fire. As she writes in her new book, The Exvangelicals, her parents married in 1976, which was, Newsweek ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon loves Bible stories, especially those with strong women. The book of Esther - that's a favorite. SARAH MCCAMMON, BYLINE: Vashti was the Queen's first wife (ph), and he wanted her ...

Most members of the Evangelical Church don't just show up on Sundays. The church has guidance for its members in almost every aspect of life. The white evangelical church is also part of a political ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego , it's Jade Hindman. Today , NPR's Sarah McCammon joins us to talk about her new book on the evangelical movement. We'll talk about what that is and talk about her own ...

A commonality that many deconstructing evangelicals share is a sense that the very tradition they were raised with has ultimately led them to an unexpected, often difficult, but more authentic journey ...

When we look back at 2018 a couple of decades from now, we may well recognize it as the year that a cohort of former evangelicals—largely children of the 1980s and 1990s who were mobilized for the ...

Early last month, I expressed cautious optimism here on RD that conservative, mostly white evangelicals just might be losing control over the narrative about evangelicalism. Perhaps the best evidence ...

Exvangelicals, in McCammon’s portrayal, are united by past upbringing and present trauma, rather than by any shared conviction. Some are still religious, others are not, and their political views are ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Sarah ...