The Challenge of Pluralism in Our Time

In 2004, I counted up the number of presidential candidates who had switched denominations at some point in their lives. Howard Dean switched because of a fight about a bike path. A lot of them had switched for reasons one might not necessarily think were deeply philosophic. And so the pluralism in America is what many people have called shopping for faith and all that sort of stuff. That's actually not new language for him. He's spoken that way before.