AUDIO: NPR on Changing of Evangelical Guard
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NPR’s All Things Considered had a very well done piece yesterday on the evangelical leaders who will fill the void left by Rev. Falwell’s death. Falwell and his religious right supporters did their best to restrict the evangelical community’s focus to abortion and gay marriage, but have been losing out for some time now. The ‘Compassion Issues’ like AIDS, Darfur, global warming and poverty are real priorities of the evangelical community, especially of evangelicals under the age of 35.
As NPR reporter Barbara Bradley Hagerty puts it in her piece:
Some younger evangelicals are complaining that [Falwell's] old message focuses more on what Christians are against than on what they are for.
Wow, that’s a great piece of reporting and a very interesting point about the FL numbers on “any given Sunday” right there at the end.