Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation - Hardcover

Ward, Jon

 
9781587435775: Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1587435772 ISBN 13: 9781587435775
Verlag: Baker Publishing Group, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

"Ward is consistently clear-sighted and perceptive as he charts a genuinely fascinating personal and spiritual evolution."--Publishers Weekly

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 readers 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jon Ward is the chief national correspondent at Yahoo! News. He has covered American politics and culture for two decades, including as a White House correspondent traveling aboard Air Force One and as a national affairs correspondent writing about two presidential campaigns. He is the author of Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight That Broke the Democratic Party and hosts The Long Game podcast. Ward has written for the Washington Post, the New Republic, Politico, Vanity Fair, HuffPost, and the Washington Times and lives in Washington, DC.

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Jon Ward's life is divided in half: twenty years inside the evangelical Christian bubble and twenty years 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. He 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 as he calls those inside and outside conservative Christian circles to embrace truth, complexity, and nuance. Ultimately, he longs for a return to the way, the truth, and the life of Christ.

"Testimony is the book I have been waiting for. I suspect there are millions more like me who will resonate with Jon's powerful witness. To read it is to participate in a circle of trust where you are not alone, you're not going crazy, and all is not well. This is a form of setting things right--a move toward healing. I'm listening and grateful."
--Charlie Peacock, Grammy Award-winning music producer; founder and director emeritus of Commercial Music Program, Lipscomb University School of Music

"Ward's personal story--of faith and family and things left behind--is also the story of how our culture came unglued. Testimony is a deeply moving book, and deeply important."
--Matt Bai, author of All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid

"Ward's honest, meditative, and beautifully written memoir shines a bright light on the often-obscured links between religion and politics in America."
--Yuval Levin, author of A Time to Build

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Verlag
Baker Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1587435772
ISBN 13 
9781587435775
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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