When Richard Land and Jim Wallis agree on a policy issue — and when conservative Baptists and left-leaning Menonites together advocate U.N. military action — you know something important is happening. Leaders from across the evangelical spectrum have endorsed Evangelicals for Darfur, an initiative that urges the U.S. to press for stronger sanctions and a more effective U.N. peacekeeping role in Darfur. This is an important, and fascinating, exercise of evangelical ethics in the public square. Too bad the U.S. has squandered so much of its moral, financial and military capital in Iraq. It will be hard for the U.S. to make any real difference in Darfur’s dire crisis.
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