In reply to someone marking our faith affiliation as “Evangelical Christian” on an interfaith environmentalist organization pledge form

Identity labels can be tricky…

Hi Tom –

That all looks correct, with perhaps one exception of probably small import: I’m not sure what percentage of folks would still call us evangelical Christians. I myself still might fit some definitions because of the premiums I place on conversing with God, making a personal decision to follow Jesus, and looking to the Bible for meaning, direction, and truth. I’d also still love for others to know the God I know. But in many ways, I probably don’t fit the label.

That said, please leave the moniker as written if evangelicals are underrepresented in your efforts and my being labeled as such would make it look less so. I’m probably close enough, and you know I’d love to mobilize them/us. 

– Scott