How Should Evangelicals Respond to the Vanishing Mainline?

January 13th, 2026 | 7 min read

Ryan P. Burge. The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us. Brazos Press, 2026. $26.99. 232 pp.

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Daniel K. Williams

Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship. He is currently writing a history of Protestant Christian apologetics that is under contract with Oxford University Press.

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