Christianity Today interviews NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof, who has written quite a bit about global poverty and strife, and the role of religion in ameliorating it:

What’s surprised you about covering evangelicals?

There is a really important change going on within the evangelical community. In general, evangelicals had been a disproportionally isolationist constituency in the country, skeptical of foreign aid and foreign engagement. That is really changing. Increasingly, you’re getting a really important evangelical constituency for fighting AIDS, for fighting genocide in Darfur, for fighting sex trafficking.