Evangelicalism’s 50 First Dates
Historical Amnesia in the Tyranny of the Present
7 min readOct 29, 2019
Remember 50 First Dates with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore? It was the winsome, romantic comedy of a young woman who suffered from short-term memory loss. Lucy remembers nothing from the previous day, which means that Henry, her suitor, must reinvent himself every day and reintroduce himself to her.