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The Sustainability of a Purely Evangelical Identity

June 10th, 2010 | 1 min read

By Jake Meador

Yesterday I got coffee with a friend and our conversation eventually turned to the topic of modern American evangelical identity. My friend voiced frustrations with the arbitrary nature of evangelicalism's identity with church history. For the most part, evangelicals do not stand in the tradition of which they are a member, so much as they label themselves with one tradition but borrow randomly from any other tradition they personally find useful.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.