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Polish Christians have already been an encouragement to some in the West. Gordon Showell-Rogers, general secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance, said that the new Polish members of the European Parliament have been "refreshing" in their willingness to bring their faith and its moral implications to the floor of parliamentary debates.

The last 15 years weren't supposed to be this hard—but maybe they had to be for the church to move forward. A new generation now fills the pews and is ready to make its voice heard in Europe, a voice that will sing its old song in a new way.

Let's hope it will be heard.

Leah Seppanen Anderson is a political science professor at Wheaton College. Nate Anderson is a writer living in Wheaton, Illinois.

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Other CT articles on rising evangelicalism in Europe include:

Promoting and Uniting European Evangelicals | Swimming against the current makes the European Evangelical Alliance's liaison to the E.U. feel alive. (June 24, 2005)

The French Reconnection | Europe's most secular country rediscovers its Christian roots. (Feb. 5, 2005)

The Ultimate Language Lesson | Teaching English may well be the 21st century's most promising way to take the Good News to the world. (Dec. 6, 2002)

Articles from Books & Culture's issue on God is not dead:

The Real Story of Secularization | Is Europe a special case? (November/December 2002)

God Is Not Dead | The April 8, 1966, issue of Time magazine (scheduled to coincide with Easter) created a hubbub with the stark cover line, "Is God Dead?" (November/December 2002)

The Renaissance of Religion in Canada | They're not dropping out. They're dropping in. (November/December 2002)

American Gnostic | Harold Bloom's post-Christian nation ten years on (November/December 2002)

More articles on faith and secularism include:

That Other Church | Let's face it: Secularism is a religion. Let's treat it as such. (Dec. 21, 2004)

Misfires in the Tolerance Wars | Separating church and state now means separating belief and action. (Feb. 24, 2004)

One Nation Under Secularism | France's peculiar aversion to public religiosity is rooted in a sordid history of sectarian violence. (Feb. 13, 2004)

God's Funeral | What will keep faith from nearly disappearing in America? (By Philip Yancey, Sept. 03, 2002)

The Wages of Secularism | New laws won't prevent another Enron. (June 04, 2002)

Zarathustra Shrugged | What apologetics should look like in a skeptical age. (Sept. 5, 2001)

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