Letters‪.‬

Social Work, Evangelical Christians, and Values In his recent articles "Does Social Work Oppress Evangelical Christians? A 'New Class' Analysis of Society and Social Work" (October 2002) and "Value Differences between Social Workers and Members of the Working and Middle Classes" (January 2003), David Hodge raised a number of thought-provoking points about the social work profession's relationship with "groups who hold values that differ substantially from those affirmed by social workers" (Hodge, 2003, p. 117), "religious populations," and, in particular, "Evangelical Christians" (Hodge, 2002, pp. 401, 402). Hodge maintained that, as a group, social workers have become part of the "new class" or "knowledge class," which is involved in the production and distribution of knowledge, and tend to embrace values that diverge from those of the working and middle classes and, especially, Evangelical Christians. Hodge's (2002) key assertions and conclusions include: