To be expected
All labels - like "conservative" or "liberal" - are self referential. They almost always tell you more about the person doing the labeling than about the person they are talking about. That's why I wasn't surprised when CNN call Jim Wallis an evangelical in this article. The article also has a church sign from a United Church of Christ church - and I wouldn't call the UCC denomination "evangelical" by any stretch of the imagination. The UCC does not hold to any of the fundamentals of the faith as far as I can discern. Inerrancy of Scripture, the virgin girth and deity of Christ, his substitutionary death, burial and bodily resurrection are optional at best for those I know in the UCC.
Like I said - labels are largely self referential. And that's what I expected from CNN.
Like I said - labels are largely self referential. And that's what I expected from CNN.
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