The current issue of Time Magazine is featuring a story about the 25 most influential evangelicals in America. Most of the names will be familiar to Baptists. Among those whom many Baptists may find unfamiliar are a couple that are worth noting.
# 2 on the list, Howard and Roberta Ahmanson are noteworthy because they fund most of the right-wing religious think tanks and causes that are working toward theocracy in America -- including the Christian Reconstructionist Chalcedon Foundation and the fundamentalist-conservative Institute for Religion and Democracy (IRD).
#14 on the list, Diane Knippers is noteworthy because she heads the IRD which has been tirelessly working to reproduce fundamentalist takeovers of the Episcopal, Presbyterian and Methodist denominations modeled after the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Those interested in detailed information about the work of the Ahmansons and the IRD should read Lewis C. Daly's A Moment to Decide: The Crisis in Mainstream Presbyterianism and Leon Howell's United Methodism at Risk: A Wake-Up Call.
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