And it is also important to remember that on a national scale, urban evangelicals are a significant minority: less than 20 percent of all white evangelicals. In other words, urban evangelicals often talk like “converts”: they have had to reflect on place and their relation to cities in ways that have forced articulation. In contrast, suburban evangelicals have tended to “go with the flow,” as it were; they have not thought about place and thus are more easily shaped and directed by status quo habit-forming practices.
