Evangelical Code Switching, Media Complicity, and the Meaning of "Love"

Journalists Either Can't or Won't Translate Evangelical, and That Suits Evangelicals Just Fine

Observe any subcultural group with an authoritarian ethos and a manufactured sense of being “outsiders” who are “misunderstood” and even “persecuted,” and you’ll find that the more public-facing members are experts at code switching. If the group in question is actually powerful and privileged, as in the case of America’s white evangelicals, you’ll even…