Source: RNS
(RNS) In the midst of a bitter presidential campaign, a group of 13 evangelical leaders has founded an organization advocating a Christian and civil approach to politics.
The group, Public Faith, stresses its nonpartisanship and includes both conservative and liberal-leaning evangelicals. Its founders include Michael Wear, the deputy director for President Obama’s faith-based initiatives during the president’s first term, and Alan Noble, editor-in-chief of Christ and Pop Culture, an online publication.
“We seek to offer a different voice: confident and hopeful, equally full of conviction and grace,” the group declares on its website, which went live Aug. 29.
Public Faith’s leaders say they are trying to counter sentiments among some evangelicals, who have traditionally favored the Republican Party, that they need to turn into political hard-liners, or bow out of a political process that so many this campaign season find distasteful.
The rhetoric of Republican nominee Donald Trump has distressed some prominent evangelicals, who have accused him of scapegoating immigrants and stereotyping ethnic and religious minorities.
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