The time has come, argues Sarah Bessey — called an «accidental grassroots voice for postmodern and
progressive evangelical women» — to take a new look at Scripture and challenge old assumptions.
Balmer wrote his book, however, as an
evangelical who wanted to recover what he considered to be the heart of the movement, which was its late - nineteenth - century coalition of conservative theology and
progressive social activism around the poor,
women, and ethnic minorities.