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The Year of the Evangelical

The Year of the Evangelical

Friday, March 13, 2026
CT started 1976 on a contrarian note. As the nation prepared to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary professor argued that the real birth of America happened not in 1776 but in 1740. The January 1976 cover story argued, “We’ve picked the wrong year.” What occurred in [1740] Read more... The post The Year of the Evangelical appeared first on Christianity Today.