An interesting read

We don’t normally think of “Born Agains” as non-conformists, but in the sweep of American religious history, they are.

“Evangelical Protestantism is anything but traditional in its outlook on the world,” the sociologist Alan Wolfe wrote. “If I had to invent a term that meant the exact opposite of ‘traditional,’ I would use the phrase that evangelicals apply to themselves: ‘born again.’ To be traditional is to be born into a world shaped by one’s parents and grandparents and to feel an obligation to pass that world on unchanged to one’s children and grandchildren.”

Taken from “Does the God Gap Matter?” by Dick Meyer, via NPR.