My response to the Evangelical Manifesto By Joseph Farah

I feel like I'm running out of descriptive names to call myself.

Quite a long time ago, I quit thinking of myself as a "conservative." I found that label to be ill-matched to my radical view of the world. The Jesus I follow and His disciples turned the world upside down. I want to do that again – and I make no apologies for it.

So, I stopped calling myself a "conservative" and I urged other conservatives to do the same – to abandon a label that pigeonholed them and their view of the world into trying desperately only to hold on to the good that was left rather than restoring good that has been lost.

I clung instead to a theological label that seemed to suit me – evangelical Christian.

But after reading what is being called "An Evangelical Manifesto," drafted and signed by some 75 celebrity Christians, I fear I may have to abandon another comfortable self-description.

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