The Huffington Post publishes Part One of Richard Hughes’s two-part commentary “A Riddle of Life and Death Proportions: Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good.”

“Why do so many evangelical and fundamentalist Christians–people who clearly honor the Bible–so often disregard two requirements that are central to the biblical text and central to the teachings of Jesus: peacemaking and justice for the poor? This is hardly an academic question. With over 25% of the total American population fundamentalist and evangelical Christians, it could make a vast difference in the lives of millions around the world if more of them took the Bible’s teachings on these two points more seriously.”

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Richard Hughes is author of the new book Christian America and the Kingdom of God.