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I AM AN EVANGELICAL. Now, I am usually happy to be called such, for I take the term to identify me as one who longs to think and to live my life--including my sexual life--in the light and power of the gospel, the good news, the evangel.

"Evangelical" means different things to different people, however, and some of those things I should rather not be called. Someone has said, for example, that an evangelical is "a fundamentalist with a sense of humor." It is not for me to settle disputed questions about the definition of an evangelical or about the boundaries of evangelicalism or about the correct pitch for an evangelical voice. It is enough for me happily to accept the …