Testimony : Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
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Publisher Description
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.
A respected journalist, Ward asks uncomfortable but necessary questions, calling those inside and outside conservative Christian circles to embrace truth, complexity, and nuance. He recounts his growing alarm and grief over the last several years as evangelical conservatives attacked truth, rejected personal character, and embraced authoritarianism and conspiracism. He shares his search for a faith that embodies the values he was taught as a child.
Ward's experience and reflections will resonate with many listeners who grew up in the evangelical movement as well as all those who have an interest in the health of the church and its impact on American life.
Customer Reviews
Always suspicious of evangelicals
As the child of evangelical parents, I saw myself in your words. I’ve walked away from the evangelical community many years ago. As a child I felt shunned by my evangelical family for questioning those in power. I no longer consider myself Christian. Your book is enlightening. Thank you for writing it.
Another woke opinion disguised as a christian.
This book is another rant about how Trump is bad for the country. This guy is simply jumping on the Trump hater band wagon. What we know today about Covid, the Russian collusion as a Clinton/Obama hoax but not a mention of the left wing medias attempt to control the American people. When not a mention of Twitter and it’s own collusion with the Biden government. Please no more books from you.