Rescuing Jesus

Most of what we think we know about evangelicals is wrong, or is well on its way to being outdated. Generational changes and the shifting racial make-up of evangelicals are changing what we think of as evangelical politics. Today's young evangelicals are more likely than their elders to accept homosexuality and same-sex marriage, more inclined to think of "pro-life" issues as being about support for the poor, more likely to be against the death penalty, and more accepting of equality between men and women. The women and men on this leading edge of progressive evangelicalism -- white, black, Asian, and Hispanic -- are working to change the substance of evangelicalism and to wrest political power away from conservative evangelicals. In Rescuing Jesus, Deborah Jian Lee, a journalist and former evangelical, brings us deep inside this progressive movement and tells the stories of the young evangelicals at the forefront of it. Rescuing Jesus is a book for progressive Christians, disaffected evangelicals, and left-leaning readers concerned about the clout that the evangelical movement still holds in national politics.