Helpful entry points to learning about Evangelical Christianity:
» Pew Forum's Research on Evangelicals
[http://pewforum.org/events/?EventID=156]
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life offers surveys, presentations, and news reports that explore the relationship between religion and politics from various perspectives, including Evangelical Christians.

» Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
[http://www.wheaton.edu/isae/]
Established by Evangelical historians Mark Noll and Nathan Hatch, this center out of Wheaton College focuses on researching Evangelical Christianity and offers resources and a good definition for Evangelicalism.

» "The 25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America"
[http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050207/photoessay/5.html]
Chuck Colson makes the list in Time magazine's profiles of some of the most prominent and powerful Evangelicals in the United States today.

Speaking of Faith programs exploring Evangelical issues and perspectives:
» "The New Evangelical Leaders: Rick and Kay Warren"
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/warren/]
The second program in our series on guiding figures in what some are calling the "post-Religious Right era." This program's guests are conservative Evangelicals who are increasingly being watched by a new generation of Christian and secular leaders. They want to move beyond the partisan and cultural divides of recent years to fight poverty, AIDS, and homelessness.

» "The New Evangelical Leaders: Jim Wallis"
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/jimwallis/]
The first in a two-part series on influential leaders who are reshaping Evangelical Christianity from within progressive and conservative circles. Jim Wallis founded Sojourners and now advises presidential candidates and world leaders in what he calls the "post-Religious Right" era. He is determined to put poverty at the top of America's "moral values" agenda.

» "The New Monastics: Meeting Shane Claiborne"
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/newmonastics/]
Shane Claiborne is an original voice, a creative spirit, in a gathering movement of young people known as the "new monastics." With virtues like simplicity and imagination, they are engaging great contradictions of our culture — beginning with the gap between the churches they were raised in, the needs of the poor, and the "loneliness" they find in our culture's vision of adulthood.

» "The Private Faith of Jimmy Carter"
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/jimmycarter/]
Jimmy Carter — former president and Nobel Laureate, author, and global humanitarian — speaks of his born-again faith with a directness that is striking even in today's political culture. He reflects on being commander in chief while following, as he says, "the Prince of Peace"; on upholding the law while privately opposing abortion; and on his marriage of 60 years as a metaphor for the challenge of human relationship both personal and global.

» "Discovering Where We Live: Reimagining Environmentalism"
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/discoveringwherewelive/]
Environmentalism and climate change are hot topics; yet they're still often imagined as the territory of scientists, expert activists, and those who can afford to be environmentally conscious. We discover two people who are linking everyday life and ecology in new ways, from southern Wisconsin to the South Bronx. Calvin DeWitt is transforming a rural wetland and bringing environmental science to Evangelical Christianity. And from one of the poorest and most toxic neighborhoods in the U.S., Majora Carter is changing the face of the environmental movement.

» "The Evolution of American Evangelicalism"
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/evangelicalevolution/] In early 2007, conservative Christian leaders unsuccessfully called for the removal of Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals. We'll revisit Krista's 2006 conversation with him. Cizik's views on climate change, poverty, and the war in Iraq riveted our listeners, and have now been strengthened, he says, by the challenge.

» "Evangelicals Out of the Box"
[http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/evangelicalbox/]
Stereotypes tell us this: Evangelical Christians are politically conservative, closed-minded, morally judgmental, and anti-science. We speak with two creative members of a new generation of Evangelical thinkers and teachers, who defy stereotypes and reveal an evolving character for this vast movement that describes 40 percent of Americans.

» "Gay Marriage: Broken or Blessed? Two Evangelical Views"
http://speakingoffaith.org/programs/gaymarriage/]
Our culture's acrimonious debate on the morality of gay marriage has been framed in religious — largely conservative Christian — terms. We go behind the rhetoric to explore the human confusion, hopes, and fears this subject arouses. We'll name hard questions that these religious people on both sides of the issue are asking themselves, and that they would like to ask of others.