These two men, both listed on TIME's list of the top 25 evangelical leaders represent differing directions of American Christianity. Brian McLaren is the founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Spencerville, Maryland. Richard Land directs the Ethics and Religious Liberty office of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Many of you caught the recent news of a growing number of Southern Baptist leaders signing onto a global warming declaration. They say their church's official stance is "too timid" and call for more action on climate change. They write:

Well, that was a long strange election night.

After watching election returns from the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco last night, I'm a little tired of horse race politics. Thus, I found this Q & A with Jim Wallis and Brookings Fellow E. J. Dionne Jr. a good balm for my Adventist soul.

Here are the rest of the videos on the authority of Ellen White in Adventist theology between Walter Martin and William Johnsson. The first four are here.

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The Questions on Doctrine (1957) conference got you interested in what really happened?

Are you wondering, why do people think that Adventists are a cult?

Pondering: is Adventism evangelical? Perhaps, dear reader, you will find something of value here.

Splits are emerging within evangelicalism between the older generation and what the moderator calls the new Richards, as in Rick Warren, Richard Land and Richard Cizik. Although evangelical African-Americans and premillenialists constitute significant breaks from some traditionalist theology and foreign policy. This discussion, at the Council on Foreign Relations, comes from the actual actors themselves, some of the representatives of what will constitute the future of evangelical priorities in America and the world.