Colorado Springs is home to dozens of major international evangelical parachurch organizations, many of them arriving here between 1980 and 1995. But the story really begins between 1945 and 1955, says a historian’s new book.
William J. Schultz’s Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City tells a story that “brings together conservative religion, conservative politics, laissez-faire economics and the role of the military,” said Schultz, an assistant professor of American religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Schultz originally planned to cover the 1990s, known for the arrival of Focus on the Family and the onset of the culture war over gay rights…