Reply #20: The part on Falwell and the "Moral Majority" is interesting...

[wildflower]

(snip)

Robert Wenz, of the National Association of Evangelicals, whose member churches say they represent 24 million people, drew a distinction between organizations like his and the Moral Majority, started by the Rev. Jerry Falwell.

While Falwell deserves credit for re-energizing Christians politically, the Moral Majority was ``fatally flawed,'' and its emergence as a representative of conservative Christianity was ``regrettable,'' Wenz said.

``It was all about making America a nice place for Christians to live,'' he said. ``This is not the kind of social involvement that we need or that evangelicals espouse.''

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http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/02/12/f4.rel.evan.0212.html

Regarding speaking openly about their differences with the leaders of the movement, it sounds like this conferece is about just that (I hope).

And I think it's good these articles, such as this one and another recent one, "The Greening of Evangelicals" are getting out there. As the article says, they've been pushed to focus too narrowly and align themselves with Republicans, when poverty and other values are very important in their faith.

-wildflower