But overall I felt that the Republican Party and the evangelical movement were imperfect forces for good, and I spent a large part of my life defending them. A third person, who heads a Christian organization, told me the term evangelical “is now a tribal rather than a creedal description.” In October, the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship, a campus ministry for more than 80 years, changed its name to the Princeton Christian Fellowship. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThere are of course a great many honorable individuals in the Republican Party and the evangelical movement. Assume you were a person of the left and an atheist, and you decided to create a couple of people in a laboratory to discredit the Republican Party and white evangelical Christianity. Prominent evangelical leaders, rather than challenging the president to become a man of integrity, have become courtiers.

Source: New York Times December 09, 2017 19:41 UTC