July 28, 2006
Evangelicals, Republicans, and Social Justice
Randall Balmer's "Jesus Is Not a Republican" (The Chronicle Review, June 23) offers some useful criticisms about the relationship of evangelicals to the Republican Party. Mr. Balmer writes as a believer deeply troubled by the political activity of his coreligionists. Unfortunately, the essay ultimately suffers from the kind of presumption and partisanship that he condemns in his fellow evangelicals.
Mr. Balmer apparently thinks that by not embracing certain Democratic Party priorities,
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