A paper prepared for Wranglers on November 19, 1991.
Wranglers is the name given to a network of small discussion groups of local religious leaders.
Founded in the 1920s by Reinhold Neibuhr, there are many Wranglers groups spread throughout the country that continue to meet on a regular basis for dialogue and dinner. Jim Lyons was a member of the Detroit area Wranglers for many years. By James R. Lyons I must confess that I was mystified during the early 1980's by the complete adoption of Ronald Reagan by the fundamentalists in America. It went against everything I knew to be true about both fundamentalists and conservative Christians. It didn't make sense to me.