Beginning in the spring of this year, I began noticing a changing wind among my young evangelical peers with regard to points of interest and how that translates into actual votes. I have written on this several times both on this blog and in several publications. Today, I published an article for Newsweek / Washington Post On Faith entitled, "The Uncertain Future of Evangelical Voters."This piece is different in that it explores the young evangelical trend in the context of our current political transition. I write that both parties have an opportunity to capture tomorrow's evangelicals if they can articulate specific values in a meaningful way. Will that ever happen? I don't know. For now, all eyes rest upon the President-elect to see if he will make good on the centrist promises he made to younger evangelicals while campaigning or simply govern the way his past record indicates--far to the left of most evangelical Christians.
Thoughts?
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Nice article. I am concerned though that many of the words that were spoken on the campaign trail and many of the promises that were made were empty promises. I fear that so many young evangelicals were blinded by the rhetoric of our president-elect and failed to look at what has been so solid in the past. Obama's voting record is very solidly left. I guess I am wondering why do so many young evangelicals think that this is truly going to change now that he is in the highest office in the land? I know that I will be quite pleased if he makes good on being bipartisan, but not shocked if he doesn't. Either way, he will have my prayers and respect. :-)
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