An Evangelical Revolution?

Sep 2, 2008

E. J. Dionne Jr.  has an excellent article on The New Evangelical Politics. He writes:

Anyone who still doubts that the evangelical Christian world is going through a political revolution was not watching Pastor Rick Warren’s presidential forum this weekend. The era of reducing Christianity to a narrow set of ideological commitments is over.

Just a few years ago, who would have imagined that Barack Obama and John McCain would hold a discussion of this sort in a church? Who would have thought that the session would be moderated by an evangelical pastor who was emphatic in counting both the Democrat and the Republican as his “friends”? Who would have predicted that in such a setting, the issues of abortion and gay marriage would not dominate the pastor’s queries? …

In 2004, Warren took the view that Christians should vote on a short list of “nonnegotiable” issues, including abortion. But in 2006, on Fox News, of all places, Warren declared: “Jesus’s agenda is far bigger than just one or two issues. . . . We have to care about poverty, we have to care about disease, we have to care about illiteracy, we have to care about corruption in government, sex trafficking.” That is the new politics of evangelical Christianity.

Read the article then come back and let Eclectic Christian know what you think.

8 Comments | Evangelical, mega-church, Politics, poverty | Permalink
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Distilling the world down to 100 people

Mar 21, 2008

This powerful and impactful video is what the world would look like if everyone were proportionally distilled down to a village of 100 people.

If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions as we have today, it would be something like this…

Thanks to Nigel Barham for drawing my attention to it.

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