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10 Reasons Evangelicals are Cringe

March 4th, 2026 | 9 min read

By Matthew Loftus

Evangelicals are cringe. I have personally been dealing with this problem ever since I had to convince my parents to let me listen to Creed in middle school, but you can find Francis Schaeffer talking about it several decades ago and the most important contribution to the question was probably James Davison Hunter’s book To Change the World (2010).

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Matthew Loftus

Matthew grew up in a family of 15 children and completed his medical training in Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2015, he and his family have lived in East Africa, where he currently teaches and practices Family Medicine at a mission hospital. His work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Atlantis, and Mere Orthodoxy and his first book is forthcoming from InterVarsity Press. You can learn more about his work and writing at www.matthewandmaggie.org and preorder his forthcoming book here: https://www.ivpress.com/resisting-therapy-culture

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