In the latter half of the twentieth century, the outlines of evangelicalism emerged not just in the fact that Christians of numerous denominations or no denomination at all might shop for the same books and listen to the same radio shows. They had come to share a common religio-racial imagination that made diverse groups of conservative Protestants intelligible to each other. They knew that God was colorblind and Christians were one body in Christ. They knew that racism was sinful and that mature Christians did not care much about their racial identities. They knew that the solution to
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