Back in May I looked at the changing demographics of Conservatism, and noted that there is considerable unease in Protestant circles at the ongoing Catholic revival. Timon Cline has stepped up to dispute this, and instead predict that we are in already in the Evangelical Century. What’s remarkable is the massive amount of question-begging on the part of the author. Catholics are losing ground but: By contrast, evangelical Protestants boast remarkably high conversion and retention rates and healthier levels of practical piety—church attendance, Bible reading, catechesis. Through the upheaval of the past half century, evangelicals have remained numerically and spiritually…

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