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#6. The Greening of Evangelicalism

What Would Jesus Drive? is a warming topic, if not a hot one, and the evangelical earth-stewardship movement is emblematic of the diversity flowering in a congregation that had seemed like a monolith. Hence, evangelicals against torture; evangelicals more concerned about Africa or domestic poverty than about gays; and evangelicals who apparently refused to the support the presidential bid of Republican Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, a "values" candidate who was one of their number before converting to Catholicism.

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