ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the phenomenon of integrating faith in academic writing, which occurs when evangelical undergraduates draw from values and goals common to their evangelical identities and other discourse communities to fulfill the evangelical impulse to activism. Reporting on analysis of the academic writing and experiences of five evangelical Christian undergraduates at a public university, this chapter shows that some evangelicals interpret the norms of the secular imaginary as consistent with their values as evangelical Christians and that integrating faith is an approach to academic writing that is well-suited to the secular imaginary. The five case studies presented in this chapter uncover a group of evangelicals that were previously overlooked by the existing rhetoric and writing studies scholarship.
