I was raised in a white evangelical home in America. My family remembered early twentieth century poverty quite personally and were oriented toward social justice in our worldview. Unionization lifted my paternal grandparents into the middle class. In recent years, lots of almost ex-vangelicals, much younger than I am, have redefined themselves as progressive evangelical or liberal evangelical. This has made sense to people who had robust and formative encounters with God in their youth, but whose own education and widening experience of the world beyond their childhood church has pushed them to try to re-frame their faith identity.
