Michele – Greetings from this corner as well. Great to meet you and great blog and greater heart behind the blog.
I agree with you that the religious right isn’t dead. That isn’t what I meant to communicate. What I am saying is that the leadership is changing. It is changing radically in some cases – Falwell’s and D. James Kennedy’s passing – and it is changing more subtly – the quiet but increasingly loud revolt against the self-appointed evangelical political leadership. That is the group that I am talking about, not the rank and file.
The question now becomes who replaces the mullahs? Who directs this ‘religious right’? What are they going to say about the tension of faith and politics and about the need for Christians to speak truth to power and be beholden to no one party? That is a wide open question.