At a recent convocation of about 700 mostly young evangelicals in Washington, D.C., speakers politely debated how Christians can best address culture and politics. Urging some political detachment was Jonathan Merritt, a Southern Baptist critic of conservative Christian activism and author of the just published book “A Faith of Our Own." He accused "culture war” Christians of being "partisan, narrow, and divisive."
Many young evangelicals are disillusioned with politics and how Christians have engaged it, many speakers insisted at the April 2012 "Q Ideas" conference in the nation's capital. Only 25% of the 700 attendees reported approval of the tone of Christian political engagement over the past 30 years. A full 61% of attendees identified as “unaffiliated” with any political party or ideology.
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