Beacon Press</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>An inside look at the young diverse progressive Christians who are transforming the evangelical movement</b><br><br>Deborah Jian Lee left the evangelical world because she was frustrated by its conservative politics. But over the years she stayed close to those in the movement and she has come to realize that evangelical culture and politics are changing and changing fast. Friends had stopped voting based on wedge issues. Believers of color were changing church demographics and political interests. Women were rising in the ranks despite familiar sermons about female submission. LGBTQ Christians were coming out staying in the church and leading ministries.<br><br>What Lee came to find is that most of what we think we know about evangelicals is wrong or is well on its way to becoming dated. In <i>Rescuing Jesus</i> she ventures into the world of progressive evangelicalism and tells the stories of the young women and men at the forefront of a movement that could change both the face and the substance of religion in the United States.<br><br>Generational changes and the shifting racial make-up of evangelicals are transforming the movement and pushing it