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Changing evangelical politics seen at forum

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Michael Paulson August 19, 2008 11:24 PM

In today's Washington Post, columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. argues that last weekend's Rick Warren-hosted interviews of Barack Obama and John McCain are evidence of a real shift in evangelical politics. He writes:

"Anyone who still doubts that the evangelical Christian world is going through a political revolution was not watching Pastor Rick Warren's presidential forum this weekend. The era of reducing Christianity to a narrow set of ideological commitments is over. Just a few years ago, who would have imagined that Barack Obama and John McCain would hold a discussion of this sort in a church? Who would have thought that the session would be moderated by an evangelical pastor who was emphatic in counting both the Democrat and the Republican as his 'friends'? Who would have predicted that in such a setting, the issues of abortion and gay marriage would not dominate the pastor's queries?"

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Michael Paulson covers religion for The Boston Globe. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize in 2003, won the Mike Berger, Templeton and Supple awards in 2008, and is a four-time winner of the Wilbur Award.
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