Op-Ed: A Good Friday Reflection on Our Unfavored Savior

Thankfully, being Christian is not a popularity contest. If it were, God’s people would be in trouble, according to a recent Pew Research survey.
The study evaluated American perceptions of evangelical Christians and a variety of other religious groups, including Jews, atheists, Mormons, Roman Catholics, Muslims and mainline Protestants. Perhaps unsurprisingly, of those Americans who are not themselves born again or evangelical, 32 percent had an unfavorable view of evangelicals while only