Not many outside the evangelical world have yet heard of him, but 37-year-old Donald Miller is one of the Evangelical Left’s fresh faces. His 2003 spiritual odyssey Blue Like Jazz, a sort of evangelical version of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, sold over a million copies, launching Miller as a leader among “emergent” post-modern Christians. Blue mocked Evangelical support for Republicans and George W. Bush particularly. Last year, Miller gave a public benediction at the Democratic Convention and actively campaigned for Barack Obama.

“Barack is the only candidate willing to talk about his faith in Jesus,” Miller explained on the campaign trail last September, in an interview with the Burnside Writers Collective. “So one of the reasons I support Barack is because he is my Christian brother, and other Christians are rejecting him.”