Why there are no left wing televangelists.

"There is a culture war on, we are told, and we'd best get clear about which side we are on," writes Professor McCarthy, an expert on Christianity. "We are all now either red state or blue state, pro-choice or pro-family, Fox News or Democracy Now, yellow ribbons or peace signs."

In this perceived war, the conservative Christians run roughshod over their liberal-leaning counterparts. While Democrats are regularly hammered by the savvier Republicans when it comes to issuing effective political rhetoric, the Religious Right controls the spiritual message by controlling the airwaves. Think Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson.

Name one person who speaks today for the Christian left--the very term sounds like an oxymoron. McCarthy suggests part of the problem is that the religious left's message is too complex to get across in a sound bite, the medium of the day.