“What is the ‘Post’ in Post-Evangelical Feminism?”

This paper examines post-evangelical feminist authors and readers who have disidentified with evangelicalism in the twenty-first century to explain their disidentification in historical context. Using published blog posts, social media posts, and Substack newsletters, as well as 75 semi-structured interviews I conducted from 2021-2023, I argue that post-evangelical feminists’ primary reasons for disidentification with evangelicalism are the interconnected issues of patriarchy, racism, and homophobia they consider to be dominant within white evangelicalism. Yet, as a scholar, I assert that post-evangelical feminists continue to embody evangelical tenets including the centrality of scripture, belief in the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and the motivation to spread Christian messages. The term “post-evangelical” reflects this tension of continuity and discontinuity, history and present context.