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Downsizing

Letting Go of Evangelicalism's Nonessentials

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Downsizing

By: Michelle Van Loon
Narrated by: Sheri Beth Dusek
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Evangelical Christianity has accumulated too many practices, habits, and trends that get in the way of authentic Christian faith. It's time to downsize.

Michelle Van Loon came to faith in Jesus as a Jewish teenager and embraced the first Christian community she found: evangelicals. Over the next 50 years, she enthusiastically worshiped and worked in a wide variety of evangelical groups.

Looking back on those experiences today, Van Loon treasures the things that truly deepened her faith. At the same time, she laments the accumulation of baggage—religious ideas and practices that were unhelpful at best, and harmful at worst.

Unlike many who have given up on evangelicalism altogether, Van Loon is committed to saving what's worthwhile in the evangelical faith tradition, and she invites others to join her.

Simultaneously critical and hopeful, Downsizing encourages listeners to reflect on their own experience with evangelicalism, evaluate the movement's legacy, and participate in shaping its future.

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