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This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross.

Evangelical Christians have become the most influential religious

tradition in the US, including in conservative politics.

My guest Eliza Griswold says that evangelicals also reflect a larger crisis facing American

Christians.

She writes, over the past 25 years, some 40 million

Americans have stopped attending church. Scandals over power, money, sex, and

abuse have called into question the basic goodness of church leaders and institutions,

but the exodus from the church is often misunderstood as evidence of the rise of secularization.

However, when people leave their churches,

they don't always leave their faith.

Griswold's new book looks at one example of a church

that grew in reaction against the religious right and became a place for children of conservative

evangelicals who rejected their parents' interpretations of the Bible, but wanted to follow

what they saw as Jesus's radically socialist teachings.

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