The people he approached, while predominantly progressive in their personal views, were invested in issues of democracy, pluralism, national cohesiveness. In one particularly impactful meeting, after Chang began with a mea culpa—explaining that this was a problem of evangelicals’ own making, and a problem they were responsible for solving—the man across the table, a non-Christian, abruptly cut him off. “No, no, no. This isn’t just your problem. This is everyone’s problem,” the man told him. “The truth is, some of us have marginalized evangelicals. We have given them reason to be suspicious of
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