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What evangelicals are hearing from some pastors about Covid-19 09:00 Diana Butler Bass (@DianaButlerBass) is the author of 11 books on American religion and cultural trends, including her most recent, Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way and Presence. She was a member of the Public Religion Research Institute board from 2008 to 2018. The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN. (CNN)In 1994, I quit. Twenty years earlier, I d been born again. I had grown up in a liberal Methodist church but started going to a nondenominational church with high school friends. When I told my friends that I d given my life to Jesus, there were hugs and tears. Jesus embraced me, and so did they. I had a new family and everything changed. ....