A Faith Fair’s Booth on Modern Slavery

While Michael Gerson’s article in The Washington Post is more on politics than faith, he did mention how evangelical youth are fighting against modern slavery:

Those who think of evangelical youths as the training cadre of the religious right would have been shocked at Jubilee 2008, a recent conference of 2,000 college students in Pittsburgh sponsored by the Coalition for Christian Outreach. I was struck by the students’ aggressive idealism — there were booths promoting causes from women’s rights to the fight against modern slavery to environmental protection. Judging from the questions I was pounded with, the students are generally pro-life — but also concerned about poverty and deeply opposed to capital punishment and torture. More than a few came up to me between sessions in anguished uncertainty, unable to consider themselves Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative — homeless in the stark partisanship of American politics.

Tags: Coalition of Christian Outreach, evangelicals, modern slavery

Posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 11:32 am in Faith to Freedom, Slavery Today.
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