Marcia Pally’s incisive essay on “the new evangelicals” highlights a relatively small but growing population of white evangelicals who appear to…
The new evangelicals
With a lead essay by Marcia Pally, this exchange calls attention to the growing group of evangelicals who have “left the right,” and features brief responses from a range of voices, including participants in this emerging field of “new evangelicals” and longtime observers of these trends.
The exchange as a whole complements an earlier discussion and sheds light on the historical sources and political implications of these profound transformations in the social engagements of “new evangelicals” at home and around the world. At the same time, the authors debate whether the “robust political polyphony” of contemporary evangelicalism is really so “new” at all, or whether it should instead be seen as a return to its roots as a diverse global movement.
Does fragmentation equal change?
Marcia Pally’s post tracks the important fact that contemporary American evangelical social and political engagement is fragmenting. She rightly observes…
Remembering a different evangelicalism
Celebrating the ideological diversity of contemporary evangelicalism, Marcia Pally heralds the advent of a religious non-right. Shattering stereotypes of a…
Global reflex
As both Marcia Pally and David Gushee note, there is no historical reason why evangelicalism should identify with a single…
A complex story
The American religious landscape is being altered by what Mark Noll calls “a more pluralistic evangelicalism than has ever existed…
Are “new evangelicals” a new phenomenon or a reversion to type?
In her piece, Marcia Pally continues her most commendable attempt to describe the diversity of evangelical political opinion in the…
Southern Baptists’ hands-on approach to changing the world
On the evening of Good Friday 2013, several thousand young evangelicals will file into The Church at Brook Hill in…
The riddle of the middle
Baptist minister and sociologist Tony Campolo was arguably the first to send shock waves through the ranks of the religious…
A return to the original agenda of Christ
I am one of those evangelicals who, in Professor Marcia Pally’s words, have “left the right.” As a former President-elect…
Rethinking that word “evangelical”
Professor Marcia Pally aptly describes the evangelical polyphony of our time. Despite the dreadful habit of newspapers of using the term…