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In Chapter 3 of his new book – The Future of Faith in American Politics – Dr. David Gushee answers the question Who is the Evangelical Left? Gushee argues that the most visible voices of the evangelical left include Tony Campolo, Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren and in the black evangelical community Jesse Jackson and Obery [...]

Church-State expert Melissa Rogers has written two must read blog posts. In the first post – Baptists and Other Evangelicals – Rogers responds to a quote from David Gushee in a recent ABP article. Gushee declared that: “Most moderate Baptists are center or center-left evangelicals, they just don’t know it,’ Gushee said. ‘I want to [...]

Greg Warner of the Associated Baptist Press has a published the first installment of a two-part series that examines whether an “evangelical center” will emerge to rival the waning Christian Right. Relying mostly on quotes from Baptist theologian Roger Olson, Baptist ethicist David Gushee and Anabaptist activist/author Jim Wallis, Warner’s piece is indeed quite interesting. [...]