The Southern Baptist Convention’s Land, who hadn’t talked to Beck before a few weeks ago, has started getting questions from the TV and radio personality about theological issues.

“I think he’s moving – I think he’s a person in spiritual motion and has been,” Land said.

“He has said as much to us,” Land said, referring to fellow pastors. “That he has moved in the direction of being more spiritual, more concerned with cultural issues and seeing that politics isn’t the answer.”…

Beck’s religious rhetoric appears to counter the prevailing conventional wisdom that the power of religious conservatives has been eclipsed by the Tea Party movement’s small-government conservatives.