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Nov 3
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What Is an Evangelical? with Walter Stri...

Rebecca McLaughlin
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What does it actually mean to be an evangelical?

Rebecca talks with theologian Walter Strickland II about how a word rooted in the good news of Jesus became so closely tied to American politics.

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