![]() I’m not qualified to speak into the White Russia question, but I can into the white evangelicalism one for two reasons: 1) because I’ve reflected extensively on the question in relation to the 2016 US elections, and 2) because I spent fourteen years of my life as a cross-cultural missionary in India and Pakistan. ![]() What made the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (literally “ White Russia”) so distinct from regular “Russia” so that in 1991 it had become its own differentiated country, Belarus? But when my terminology slipped and I used the phrase “white American evangelicalism,” he was right to stop me and ask exactly what I meant. The back-and-forth correspondence I was having with a colleague at work was proceeding just fine, thank you, when I was using the term “white American evangelical.” After all, I was referring to a recognizable demographic, a group of people who regularly get counted, consulted, and polled.
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