Last week Terry Gross interviewed the Rev. Richard Cizik, a former lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals who was forced out of his position after a December 2008 interview on National Public Radio's Fresh Air.

Cizik voiced support for gay civil unions in the 2008 interview, but he explained to Gross, "It was a sum total of everything [I said on Fresh Air] ... It was speaking out on behalf of creation care, climate change, a broader agenda — speaking out on a host of levels that just offended the old guard."

After leaving the association, Cizik launched a new group called the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good, which he hopes, according to the article, "will be an alternative to Christian groups that focus on the culture wars."

Read highlights of Cizik's reflections on his resignation and the evangelical movement, or listen to the full interview, at NPR.org.

More perspectives on the Future of Evangelicalism will be featured next week in the Future of Religion series on Patheos.com.