Several authors are included in Newsweek magazine’s list of “Top 10 New Faces of the Christian right.”

Asking “Who speaks for the Christian right?” the articles identify those figures it says lead the second generation of the movement, taking over the spotlight from the likes of the late Jerry Falwell and James Dobson.

Among those named is Jim Daly, president and CEO of Focus on the Family, the organization Dobson founded. Author of Finding Home: An Imperfect Path to Faith and Family and Stronger (both David C. Cook), Daly is said to be “a surprisingly different leader from his firebrand predecessor.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, is said to “represent the old mindset in the new leadership,” if anyone does. He is the co-author with bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. of Personal Faith, Public Policy (FrontLine/Strang Book Group).

Also on the list is Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It (HarperOne). “If such a thing as the Evangelical left exists, Jim Wallis is flying its flag,” Newsweek says.

Others named include Matthew Sleeth (The Gospel According to the Earth: Why the Good Book Is a Green Book, HarperOne) and Joel Hunter (Right Wing, Wrong Bird, Distributed Church Press, and A New Kind of Conservative, Regal Books).

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