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Identity and Responsibility: The Irony of Self-Labeling

Sev­eral weeks ago Tony Jones launched a poll ask­ing his blog read­ers to pick a label to replace “pro­gres­sive.” In explain­ing why he sought a new label, Jones states, “…we need a label. Words shape us; words do things; words have power. It’s no mis­take that con­ser­v­a­tives have cap­tured the term ‘evan­gel­i­cal.’ They did that