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To use Gerhardt (page 911) as an example, he describes his group thus:``religious actors involved in this intervention for peace were evangelicals, not Quakers or other left-leaning mainline Christian groups.''We are led to believe that evangelicals in general have an opposing worldview from that of the Progressive Social Gospel types who are interested in peace, social democratic issues, and current environment-related issues. Evangelicals for Gerhardt are writ as notLeft'butRight'. I want to stress the point that geographers need to make the distinction between theevangelical Right'and theevangelical Left'. Jim Wallis (2005), for example, argues that what counts asevangelical'can be found across the Left^ Right spectrum. The growingemergent'or so-calledpostmodern'churches are among the most ferventLeftist'groups in the United States. The difference betweenChristian Right',Conservative evangelical' …