Debate In Evangelical Movement Over Political Ties

A front-page New York Times article today profiles Rev. Gregory A. Boyd who leads a 4000-member megachurch in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota. Boyd has created a stir among his members and others by urging the church to get out of politics, stop moralizing on sexual issues, stop claiming he United States is a "Christian nation" and stop glorifying U.S. military actions. The Times says that this is "an example of the internal debates now going on in some evangelical colleges, magazines and churches. A common concern is that the Christian message is being compromised by the tendency to tie evangelical Christianity to the Republican Party and American nationalism, especially through the war in Iraq."