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The Evangelical Crack-up
By Jeremy | October 30, 2007
A younger generation of evangelical pastors  including the widely emulated preachers Rick Warren and Bill Hybels  are pushing the movement and its theology in new directions. There are many related ways to characterize the split: a push to better this world as well as save eternal souls; a focus on the spiritual growth that follows conversion rather than the yes-or-no moment of salvation; a renewed attention to Jesus' teachings about social justice as well as about personal or sexual morality. However conceived, though, the result is a new interest in public policies that address problems of peace, health and poverty  problems, unlike abortion and same-sex marriage, where left and right compete to present the best answers.
Topics: evangelical, media, politics | 1 Comment »
October 31st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
That article is superb. I mixes my favorite topics with temerity and aplomb. “When you mix religion and politics, you get politics.”