“Evangelicals suddenly find themselves number one on the North American religious scene,” Christianity Today editor David Kucharsky enthusiastically proclaimed in the cover story of the October 22, 1976, issue of CT, which marked the magazine’s 20th anniversary and explored “The Year of the Evangelical.”
That was not the self-congratulatory claim of an insider. Just three days later, Newsweek, then one of America’s most influential outlets, put “Born Again!” in large print on its cover. It too used the phrase “the year of the evangelical,” borrowed from pollster George Gallup. And both candidates in the year’s presidential race, Jimmy Carter and
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