I'm reading and blogging about Omri Elisha's Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches, an ethnography of two evangelical megachurches in Knoxville, Tennessee. See my introduction to the series and my follow-up post about Bible Belt Christianity. In Chapter 4 of Moral Ambition, anthropologist Omri Elisha profiles four evangelical leaders who personify the activist orientation of evangelical social engagement, and embody the virtues, struggles, and moral ambitions that go along … [Read more...] about Omri Elisha: The Frustrations of Socially Engaged Evangelicals