Religion news 19 May 2021

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Time to take back ‘evangelical’ label from white nationalists says theologian

Dr David Muir, Roehampton University, has called for the term “evangelical” to be reclaimed and not be used as a form of name-calling. He warned that unless evangelical Christians thought beyond their own little theological tribes, they were “going to be in a pretty awful place”.