"To let the religious right define evangelical...wipes out the
memory of real people who lived and fought for just causes and just
social policies because of their faith....I refuse to let the
religious right confiscate my heritage."-from Evangelical Does Not
Equal Republican...Or Democrat
A new breed of evangelicals, with a fiery passion for economic
justice, racial reconciliation, and care for the environment, has
abandoned the religious right.
Lisa Sharon Harper, a rising star in this movement, describes
the roots of this political shift, the agents of change driving it,
and, in interviews with leaders across the political spectrum, the
extent of the evangelical rejection of the right-wing political
agenda. In Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican...Or Democrat,
Harper lays out a manifesto for the new progressive evangelical
movement, drawing inspiration from the biblical concepts of shalom
and the kingdom of God, as well as from historical predecessors
such as William Wilberforce, Sojourner Truth, and John Perkins.
Harper offers a powerful indictment of the religious right, of
its role in hijacking evangelical passion and dividing Christians
against each other, and-in an agenda that is racist and sexist to
the core-of its abandonment of the gospel. She shows how
evangelicals, in disengaging from partisan politics, can reclaim
their roots and become a new moral voice for the nation.
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