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Cizik and his coworkers in the evangelical movement represent the future of that group just as the odious James Dobson represents the past. The New Life Church is probably undergoing some of the expansion that characterizes evangelical modern thinking. It is a move away from the obsession with rectums and uteri toward concern with the environment, with health care for kids, for truly family friendly issues like child care for working parents, for AIDS treatment in Africa, etc. etc.
This kind of expansion is going to severely test the mettle of the people in the movement but will also probably harness the energy and enthusiasm of the young. I don't think the evangelicals (and New Life is evangelical, not fundamentalist-- there's a difference) are going away but I do predict that they will look very different ten years from now.
