I really see this group as a pretty tolerant- though very opinionated- bunch. As a Christian, I have been very upset in the past by how the left views Evangelicals, but I think that's partly because the leaders of the movement have just not been good reppresentatives of what Evangelicals are actually like. If nothing else, I really hope Huckabee may be healing some wounds between different religions and classes, similar to though not to the same extent how Obama has been overcoming racial differences.
Excellent post. Speaking as a Christian, and a former Evangelical (my wife and my Bishop insist I am *still* Evangelical because I take the Nicene Creed literally), I think the entire movement would be better represented by the few Evangelical intellectuals and progressives who have made a mark in the last 10 or 15 years...
Tony Campolo, Ron Sider, Steve Brown, Jim Wallis, Roberta Hestenes, Dick Mouw, Mark Noll, Katherine Clark-Kroeger, Lee Strobel, Phillip Yancey, Marva Dawn, N. T. Wright, Brian McClaren, Stan Haeurwas and folks like that. Many are still pretty conservative, some liberal...but none define themselves or their faith on the basis of who and what they hate...or on the basis of who are the saints and who are the ain'ts.
