The good evangelist.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills

My son, who lives in heavily evangelical territory, recently wrote me about the importance of distinguishing between the two most important leaders of the movement, Rick Warren and James Dobson. Both are conservative, but Warren at least has common ground with liberal Christians. He avoids vitriolic partisan attacks. He believes in placing, to quote my son, "less emphasis on talking about the gospel and more on demonstrating it by combating world hunger, pollution and disease." Dobson on the other hand is "aggressively conservative and partisan, and...