Last week, The Atlantic posted an article by Emma Green titled “Evangelicalism’s Silent Majority” (located here).

I think that it was interesting and accurately reflects the position of many evangelicals; and by "evangelicals" here, I mean the definition that Barna uses (see description here). There are many "nominal" Christians (again, Barna definition) that would not agree with Anderson, but this should not be surprising.

To better understand where Anderson and other evangelicals are coming from, one has to understand their view of history and world events (past, present, and those to come). Scripture lays out these basic periods of time…