What about white mainliners and immigration reform?
The Century recently welcomed a new online-editorial intern: Tyler Day, who has a masters in theology from Boston University and is working on another in journalism at Northwestern. Below is his first post for us; we look forward to more. —Ed.
If you happened upon the front page of the Wall Street Journal [today] you saw the headline, “Evangelicals Push Immigration Path.” It’s one of several recent articles focused on white evangelicals’ changing tune when it comes to legal paths to citizenship. Megachurch pastors are willing to lose members over the issue. The National Association of Evangelicals is organizing a campaign to educate and prod congregations to political action.
The Journal piece illustrates this renovation tale with a chart based on a Pew Research Center poll:
