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A New Faith-Based Agenda
By Jeremy | November 9, 2006
While many evangelicals are impatient with the priorities of the religious right, it would be a mistake to argue that they are disillusioned by politics itself. The new evangelicals are not calling for cultural retreat, but for broader engagement. Politics, at its best, has the goal of serving your neighbor.... These activists will expect serious proposals on an expanded moral agenda.... So far, the new evangelicalism is more a tendency than a movement. To have a broad cultural influence, it will need to rally around a new faith-based agendaâ€â€a series of great moral objectives that would benefit America and the world, and make religious people proud of their political involvement....He offers several possibilities, specifically "global health," "race and poverty," and the "frontiers of medicine," and then suggests a different tone.
When it speaks, a new evangelicalism should be distinctive for its tone as well. The goal is not only to stand for Christianity's moral teachings but to emulate the manner of its Founder, who showed that kindness is not weakness, and had more tenderness for moral outcasts than for moral hypocrites. ...
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