Evangelicals have a generational divide over racial issues, aid group leader says by jonward11
MIAMI — The generational divide among white evangelicals over issues of race and social justice has given the group a more conservative reputation than is merited, but that will change in the coming decade, according to the head of an influential Christian aid group.
In particular, Haugen pinpointed the world of conservative philanthropy, which intersects closely with nonprofit and aid work. The tension, he intimated, is between a money sector in evangelicalism dominated by wealthy individuals who skew older and much more conservative in their politics, and an activist sector that is younger and far more progressive in its worldview.
Haugen, 56, worked early in his career for Bishop Desmond Tutu’s National Initiative for Reconciliation in South Africa, then directed the United Nation’s investigation into the Rwandan genocide, and also investigated police abuse cases for the Justice Department in the 1990s during Bill Clinton’s presidency. He started IJM in 1997, and the group has grown now to have an endowment of around $50 million.
But speaking to journalists, Haugen argued that conservative Christians’s focus on the kind of international aid work his group does is not at odds with an emphasis on injustice in the United States. It’s possible, he said, to care about fighting sex trafficking in third world countries without it distracting from the problem of mass incarceration or police brutality here in the U.S.
“She spoke passionately about the work of IJM confronting perpetrators of police brutality in Kenya. The audience made tearful commitments to partner in her work, tears I knew did not extend to Black victims of police brutality in this nation,” Roe wrote.
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