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Crazy Evangelicals
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>On this Super Tuesday, there will no doubt be a lot of discussion (again) about the role of religion On this Super Tuesday, there will no doubt be a lot of discussio ...

Why I Wrote The Great Awakening
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Evangelicals are leaving the Religious Right in droves. My book God’s Politics called ...

Ron Sider's The Scandal of Evangelical Politics
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

Ronald J. Sider Tragically, Christian political activity today is a disaster. Christ­ians embrace contradictory positions on almost every ...

The New Evangelicals
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:32pm | Type: Magazine Article

June G. Vajda Richard Babb The tide of political priorities among white evangelicals m ...

What Do Evangelicals Want? (Jim Wallis)
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>On Wednesday, Sojourners and Beliefnet, in collaboration with the National Association of Evangelicals Christian Student Leadership Conference, hosted a panel discussion on <A href="http://www ...

Amens and Amendments to Rich Nathan's Israel Sermon
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>I commend <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/01/how-should-christians-relate-t.html">Pastor Nathan</a> for the courage and commitment to truth required to publi ...

Women, Faith, and Presidential Politics
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>During the South Carolina Republican debate, Mike Huckabee garnered greatest applause when defending his views of wifely submission as part of his evangelical faith. ...

Getting the Evangelicals Wrong-Again
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<P>The upcoming primary in South Carolina will be critical for both the Democrats and the Republicans, say the media pundits. And South Carolina is full of evangelicals, they also say. ...

A Call to Repentance
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 1:53pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Christian support for the Iraq war raises the critical question: To whom do we belong? To whom do w ...

The Evangelical Factor in Middle East Peace
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>The Nov. 27 Annapolis meeting on Israel/Palestine has launched us into a momentous one-year process to seek a permanent peace agreement between Israel and its neighbors. What is at stake is whether af ...

Mitt Romney's Defining Moment
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><P>In what may be the defining moment of his campaign, Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a Mormon, addressed the issue of faith and its bearing on his pursuit of the presiden ...

'Come Let Us Reason Together'
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis It is time to work for common ground between evangelicals and progressives. The public discussion ...

No Time for Retreat
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:36pm | Type: Magazine Article

Celeste Kennel-Shank The difficulty - and necessity - of finding a middle ground on stem cells. On the stage o ...

Audio: Jim Wallis on 'Speaking of Faith' with Krista Tippett
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:28pm | Type: Blog

<a href="http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/speakingoffaith/20071129_jimwallis.mp3">+ Download mp3 audio</a></p> + Download mp3 audio + ...

What Evangelicals Need to Know: More Thoughts on the Beliefnet Roundtable
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:28pm | Type: Blog

<P>It was my friend, <A href="http://www.emergentvillage.com">Tony Jones</A>, who alerted me recently to the <A href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/blogalogue/a_beliefnet_roundt ...

Left Behind's Jenkins and Others Shatter Evangelical Stereotypes
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:28pm | Type: Blog

<P>In light of <A href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/11/robertson-for-rudy-by-jim-wall.html">Pat Robertson's</A> and Bob Jones III's recent presidential end ...

Another Evangelical Bridge-Builder
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><P>At its board meeting last month, the National Association of Evangelicals formally named Leith Anderson as its president. Anderson is senior pastor of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minneso ...

Evangelical Leaders Meet Rice on Middle East Peace
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><P>On Friday, Oct. 26, I was part of a small delegation of evangelical leaders who met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. We were there to follow up the letter we sent to President Bush i ...

Mystery Quote Quiz of the Week
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:29pm | Type: Blog

Who made the following statement in a recent television interview?</p> Who made the following statement in a recent television interview? I'm not sure that that g ...

Video: Jim Wallis and the Evangelical Electorate on CBS
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:29pm | Type: Blog

On the eve of his dialoge with the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land at the <a href="http://www.frcaction.org/index.cfm?c=WASH_BRIEFING">Family Research Council's Values Vote ...

Dinner with the Antichrist
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><P>Last evening I attended a reception and dinner in Washington for evangelical Christian leaders, which is not an unusual event here. But the topic and, especially, the main speaker would seem ...

Progressive and Evangelical Common Ground
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>As the Religious Right has diminished in influence, many are searching for a new political agenda that doesn&rsquo;t fit the standard right/left battles of American politics and is more consistent ...

Stan Guthrie's Red Letter Blues
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p><P>In response to Stan Guthrie's article in the October 2007 Christianity Today, <a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/50386">"When Red Is Blue: Why I Am Not A Red ...

'The Church is the Last Safe Haven'
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 9:41am | Type: Magazine Article

Bob Francis Evangelical Latinos and the New Sanctuary Movement. Rev. Samuel Rodriguez is president of the Na ...

Daoud Kuttab: Good News for Palestinian Christians
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>I first heard about the <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/08/deanna-murshed-evangelicals-an.html">letter of the evangelical leaders</a> through an e-mail from ...

Deanna Murshed: Evangelicals and Israel
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:29pm | Type: Blog

I've gotta admit, it hasn't been easy being a Christian Arab-American, much less in the evangelical church. I've gotta admit, it hasn't been easy being a Chris ...

A Conversation on Moral Issues
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis Rich Cizik is part of a broad and growing evangelical consensus on global warming. A new space is o ...

A Rubicon Crossed
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 9:32am | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Rice The church consensus is solidifying on the need to save the planet. Last year's announcement by ...

Road Map to Peace - or Destruction?
Originally Posted: 09/10/2012 - 4:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

Charles A. Kimball Three evangelicals on the challenges of Israel-Palestine. Former President Jimmy Carter� ...

The "E" Word
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Steve Thorngate There are few words thornier than "evangelical." It's a broad category that includes fundamentalists; it� ...

Brian McLaren: Joseph, Noah, and Pre-emptive Preservation
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog

<p>I've been thinking about the recent <a href="http://www.beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics/2007/03/jim-wallis-dr-dobson-lets-have-real.html">controversy regarding James Dobson</a ...

Tony Jones: Three Choices in Pluralism
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 3:08pm | Type: Blog

Last week, I caused a bit of a dust-up by <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2007/02/tony-jones-honest-questions-for-mitt.html">wondering aloud about Mitt Romney's LDS faith< ...

Keeping Christians Cool
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Jonathan Mendez More than 1,500 young evangelicals from across the U. ...

Breaking the 'Holy Hush'
Originally Posted: 05/13/2011 - 9:24am | Type: Magazine Article

Gail Martin Evangelicals find new resources to address domestic violence. The U.S. Department of Justice estim ...

An Evangelical Climate Change
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis 'I'm tired of those old white guys telling us what to think and do.' For more than a ...

Green (and Not So Green) Evangelicals
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger In February, 86 evangelical leaders declared climate change a Christian priority and lent their support to political i ...

Progressive Family Values
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

James Ferguson A recent poll conducted for PBS’s Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly surveyed 1,130 adults about faith and family. ...

The Second Coming of the Lord God Bird
Originally Posted: 05/11/2011 - 4:29pm | Type: Magazine Article

Valerie Weaver-Zercher The quest to save the ivory-bill represents a desire with which many evangelical Christians may connect. ...

What's right with this picture?
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:29am | Type: Magazine Article

Elizabeth Palmberg The Micah Challenge calls evangelicals to get serious about bringing good news to the poor. ...

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Originally Posted: 05/11/2011 - 11:11am | Type: Magazine Article

Josh Andersen Is the advance of God's kingdom through missions being confused with the advance of American hegemony through the milit ...

Body and Soul
Originally Posted: 05/06/2011 - 2:51pm | Type: Magazine Article

Kate Bowman They're reading liberation theology and listening to the world's urban poor. Meet the young evangelicals of Word Mad ...

Whose Child is This?
Originally Posted: 05/06/2011 - 2:53pm | Type: Magazine Article

Joshua Andersen Many Christians went to the former Soviet Union to evangelize. While there some discovered Russia's new gulags, and f ...

Outside the Gate
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Gordon Aeschliman Will progressive evangelicals please stand up and be counted? Amnesia, whimpering, and nost ...

The Spirit Seems to Smile
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:44pm | Type: Magazine Article

Bill Pannel Evangelicals build bridges for racial reconciliation. (Evangelicals, Race, Feature) Evang ...

Toward Rural Resurrection
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:43pm | Type: Magazine Article

L. Shannon Jung A friend and collaborator says that rural America is experiencing a "tremendous dying." I take it that also mea ...