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IRD Launches Journal Examining U.S. Foreign Policy from Christian Perspective

Contact: Jeff Walton, Institute on Religion and Democracy, 202-682-4131, 202-413-5639, jwalton@TheIRD.org 

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2015 /Christian Newswire/ -- Evangelical Christians are among the most influential groups of activists and voters in America today. Yet, when it comes to scholarly discussion of international affairs, conservative evangelicals are astonishingly underrepresented. With the launch of Providence, the Institute for Religion and Democracy plans to fill this void by providing conservative Protestant and Evangelical perspectives on international issues.

    Who:
    Mark Tooley, Institute for Religion and Democracy, President

    William Kristol, The Weekly Standard, Founder

    Robert Nicholson, The Philos Project, Executive Director

    Joseph Loconte, Kings College, Professor of History

    Mark Livecche, Providence, Managing Editor

    Paul Marshall, Hudson Institute Center for Religious Freedom, Senior Fellow

    David Shed, Patrick Henry College, former acting Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

    Faith McDonnell, Institute on Religion and Democracy, Religious Liberty Director

    Keith Pavlischek, retired USMC colonel and military ethicist

    What:
    Opening remarks, panel discussions and a lunch address.

    Where:
    Newseum, 555 Pensylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001

    When:
    November 6, 2015 11a.m.–3p.m. (EST)

IRD President Mark Tooley commented:

    "Dangerous assumptions about a peaceful world where force of arms and strategic calculation are no longer needed pervade much of American Christianity. There has arisen a new generation of Evangelicals detached from and even embarrassed by earlier Evangelical leadership that enthusiastically supported a strong U.S. foreign and military policy.

    "Young Evangelicals are prone to a neo-Libertarian isolationism, pessimistic that America has any major constructive role in sustaining global order.

    "The young and the comfortable in today's America too often assume their security and ease are the human historical norm. They don't know that war, genocide, tyranny, extreme poverty, and oppression are far more common to the human experience.

    "Providence seeks to foster Christian conversation about our moral duties as Americans in this place and time to seek, promote, and preserve an approximate justice with liberty for as many as possible, to include above all the liberty to hear and proclaim the Gospel around the world.

    "Today's Evangelical pacifists and isolationists are partly a reaction against past Evangelical and Protestant failure effectively, if at all, to articulate historic Christian ethical teaching about God's purpose for nations and governments. Providence will strive to rectify that failure and to initiate an exciting new adventure in seeking to interpret where America fits in the divine constellation of an ever onrushing human history."

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