A few days ago, Ben Carson sat down for an interview with Christianity Today. Speaking with the nation’s most influential evangelical magazine has become a regular rite of passage for presidential aspirants, particularly of the Republican variety, and a critical means for establishing one’s evangelical convictions. (Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush both have already spoken with the publication.) Carson wasted no time appealing to his conservative Christian audience, drawing attention to the challenges he’s faced advocating his “strong Christian values in a secular progressive society.”
Carson has sounded the alarm of secular progressivism throughout his campaign, often more dramatically than he did with Christianity Today. Just last month, in an address at Liberty University, Carson inveighed against the secular progressives “who are trying to push God out of our lives.”
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