Nick Kristof, writes in the Sunday Review of New York Times a superb eulogy to the noble decency of John Stott as compared with bullies of the Religious Right in the US, like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. Here is what he writes:
In these polarized times, few words conjure as much distaste in liberal circles as “evangelical Christian.”
That’s partly because evangelicals came to be associated over the last 25 years with blowhard scolds. When the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson discussed on television whether the 9/11 attacks were God’s punishment on feminists, gays and secularists, God should have sued them for defamation. Continue reading “Nicholas Kristof – An Eulogy to Stott and NonFundamentalist Evangelicals”