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I appreciate the movement of well-known and intelligent evangelicals giving voice to the global evangelical church. I appreciate that they speak to their our own conservative and western/white audiences and invite them to consider a broader definition and practice of evangelicalism. This said, as a non-minority, American male, I also want to be hesitant with how far I go into global definitions at the expense of dealing with the socially embodied definitions of my own "tribe." First, global evangelicalism can too often become one thing. I am not sure we want to do this - Anglican Africans are included in evangelicalism as are Pentecostal Asians and underground house churches. What about Latin American base communities of the Roman Catholic Church? By using the label  global evangelicalism  I wonder if it is too often a romanticized view that undercuts and further limits the actual voice of the world-wide churches? Second, the word global evangelicalism  is often r...