Mark Rodgers, 48, is fighting what many would consider an impossible battle: Reforming politics and popular culture to promote what is good, beautiful and true. His Virginia consulting company, the Clapham Group, is named after an 18th century London community of Christians devoted to ending the slave trade and other injustices, such as child labor and animal cruelty — issues that Rodgers continues to work on with his own clients. He spoke with The Washington Examiner about his work to make goodness fashionable, and a faith that sustains his constant struggle for what is right. Do you consider yourself to be of a specific faith?

I am an evangelical Christian in the tradition of social reformers who put their faith into action. I value that my faith allows both a theological basis and a practical, day-to-day understanding of how to be “in the world, but not of the world.” There’s a dimension in which our faith deals with personal spirituality, but we’re also called to pursue mercy and compassion, to confront injustice and to seek the common good.