Boz Tchividjian, the grandson of world renowned evangelist Billy Graham, is reportedly no longer identifying himself with the term “evangelical,” joining many others who have abandoned the term in the wake of the election of President Donald Trump.
“I don’t identify myself with that term any more,” Tchividjian, an activist who speaks out against sexual abuse in the church, was quoted as saying in a Nov. 3 article focusing on “exvangelicals” published by the British news outlet The Guardian.
“Words matter,” Tchividjian said. “And ‘evangelical’ isn’t like Baptist or Episcopalian, which can be clearly defined. The minute you use that term to someone, “you’re defined by how they interpret it.”
As 2016 presidential election exit polls showed that 81 percent of people who identified as white evangelicals voted for Trump and as Trump has done much in his first year in office to appeal to the conservative evangelical vote, the word “evangelical” has increasingly become associated with the Trump presidency.
Considering that “evangelical” a word that most…
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