The good news about evangelicalism

Article | First Things: Evangelicalism isn't what it used to be. Looking at the supposed repudiation of “the religious right” in the 2008 election, many pundits chortled gleefully that evangelicalism is smaller than most have thought, and that the evangelical young have morphed into social liberals. In other words, evangelicals are not as powerful a cultural force as previously thought, and in the future they will be even less so. Neither of these claims is true. The evangelical movement is undergoing a sea change, to be sure, but it is not the sort most observers imagine.