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Evangelicals
Jan. 8th, 2006 12:48 pmYou may have gathered I have problems with evangelical Christianity.
But yesterday afternoon we were watching an Open University video about how 18th century evangelicals- people like the Wesleys and John Newton and the poet William Cowper and the bluestocking Hannah More and, above all, William Wilberforce- spear-headed the fight against the slave trade. These people were passionate humanitarians and immensely brave.
Their spiritual descendants include the likes of Pat Robertson. I'm trying to get my head round this and it's a struggle.
But yesterday afternoon we were watching an Open University video about how 18th century evangelicals- people like the Wesleys and John Newton and the poet William Cowper and the bluestocking Hannah More and, above all, William Wilberforce- spear-headed the fight against the slave trade. These people were passionate humanitarians and immensely brave.
Their spiritual descendants include the likes of Pat Robertson. I'm trying to get my head round this and it's a struggle.
