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Will the last person leaving evangelicalism turn out the lights?

Will the last person leaving evangelicalism turn out the lights?

No one wants to be the straggler hanging around when their friends are at the afterparty. So why stay?

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Jun 17, 2022
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The “Boeing bust” began in Seattle in the early 1970s, when the city’s largest employer laid off more than 40,000 workers in a year and the local unemployment rate hovered near 12%. A couple of real estate agents bought an infamous billboard near the airport that read “will the last person leaving SEATTLE Turn out the lights?” The sign may not have been…

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