Suing for America's Soul

<DIV>When John W. Whitehead founded The Rutherford Institute as a Christian legal advocacy group in 1982 he was interested primarily in the First Amendment's religion clause serving clients only when religious freedom was at stake. By the mid-1990s however religious rights were but one subset of all the freedoms that he saw threatened by an invasive government.<br><br> In <I>Suing for America's Soul</I> R. Jonathan Moore examines the foundation and subsequent practices of The Rutherford Institute helping to explain the rise of conservative Christian legal advocacy groups in recent decades. Moore exposes the effects -- good and bad -- that such legal activism has had on the evangelical Protestant community. Thought-provoking and astute <I>Suing for America's Soul</I> opens a revealing window onto evangelical Protestantism at large in late-twentieth-century America.</DIV>