A new, more conservative generation of evangelical Christians should engage politics, not retreat from it, because of the gospel of Jesus, Southern Baptist Ethicist Russell D. Moore says in the latest issue of First Things. Writing in the influential journal, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission says the apparent return to a confessional, gospel-centered faith among evangelicals – which he describes as “good news” – should not result in political and social disengagement. Otherwise, young evangelicals will be in danger of duplicating the “politically idolatrous” mistakes of previous generations but in a different way, Moore says.