More power than the damage that has been done by people who have caused such harm in its name. Power that deserves to be put back in the hands of people who will construct with it, rather than destroy. Let me suggest an alternative. Evangelism has indeed been wed, throughout the Christian centuries, to the idea of conversion. But it does not mean winning converts, or insisting on right belief.
Evangelism is, literally, proclaiming good news.
Sharing a vision. Voicing a dream. We Unitarian Universalists have some good news. Some dreams worth sharing. I would like to meet a self-defined Unitarian Universalist who thinks that our news is not good news, that our vision is not worth sharing.