As president of an ecumenical think tank devoted to helping people form a social and political witness rooted in historic Christian teaching, I think a lot about the intersection of faith and democracy. But my views on these matters were shaped, in part, by books I read as a young man.
While in college, I read The Betrayal of the Church (Crossway 1986) by United Methodist evangelist Edmund Robb and his journalist daughter Julia Robb. The book documented how the mainline denominations, unbeknownst to most laity, were funding Marxist objectives informed by liberation theology. Ed Robb co-founded the Institute on Religion & Democracy (IRD), which since 1981 has made Christian arguments for democracy, human rights, and religious freedom.
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