Review of ‘Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism’ by David R. Swartz


 Swartz, David R. 2012. Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. In America, white evangelicals are politically conservative. Seventy-nine percent of white evangelicals who voted in 2012, for example, cast their presidential ballot for Republican Mitt Romney, matching George W. Bush’s share of white evangelical voters in 2004. So connected in the public mind have evangelicalism and conservatism become that it’s hard for many to imagine any other state of affairs. Indeed, many white evangelicals themselves have a hard time imagining how any Christian could vote for a Democrat.[1] Forty years ago, … Continue reading Review of ‘Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism’ by David R. Swartz

Are Christians Haters? (1 John 2:9-11)


I once had a conversation with a Christian man about interracial marriage. He strongly opposed such marriages and argued that our church should not publicly condone them. (As part of a series on marriage, we had photographed couples in the church and showed their pictures during a worship service. Several of the couples were interracial.) I replied that there was no room in the church for bigotry because God created us all equally and offers salvation to all freely. Which one of us was right? The man offered a laundry list of arguments about the evils of interracial marriage. (They … Continue reading Are Christians Haters? (1 John 2:9-11)