““This book aims, in part, to help reverse the lamentable public retreat of religious liberals in recent decades. Yet, religious liberalism on the whole in the United States is by no means diminishing. Recent studies indicate that approximately one in four Americans describe themselves as religious liberals, roughly the same number as those who describe themselves as religious conservatives—and some suggest that the number of religious liberals may be even higher. To make sense of the numbers, we need to define religious liberal. While there are many””
