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Thanks, but no thanks?
Nov 26, 2025 4:45 PM

Non-evangelicals and progressive Christians continue to throw their support Rev. Richard Cizik’s way. Now the Institute for Progressive Christianity has released a mending “the courage and Christian concern displayed by Rev. Rick Cizik and the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) for mending preventive action on the issue of global warming.”

Given the care that Cizik has ostensibly taken to distance himself from radical environmentalists, both of the secular and religious variety, and the care with which he has attempted to connect creation care with other evangelical political issues like abortion, I wonder just how e these expressions of solidarity really are.

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