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An insider's tour of the lives and culture of America's evangelical Christian subculture offers insight into how its faith shapes private and professional lives and how evangelists are influencing public debate in the country today, in an account that also discusses how the movement is being carried out at Lake Forest's Saddleback Church, on the Wheaton College campus, and in Washington, D.C.
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Evangelical Christians comprise roughly a fourth of the U.S. population - more than sixty million Americans say they are "born again" and experience a daily personal relationship with God.Jeffrey L. Sheler takes readers to the places where today's evangelicals live, work, and worship, to meet them firsthand and discover how their unique brand of Christian faith shapes their lives and how they, in turn, are shaping and being shaped by their communities and the wider culture around them.Through personal stories, Believers paints an in-depth portrait of a people of faith who believe in the power of the gospel to transform lives and of their pursuit of a vision of a just and righteous America.
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