American evangelicals have become increasingly active in their efforts to promote common good solutions to urban poverty and inequality, yet most studies report a rather dismal record regarding their ability to create positive social change. However, in recent years a growing minority of urban evangelical activists have begun experimenting with new institutional approaches to combat poverty and inequality, whose primary goals include the social, economic, and political empowerment of marginalized and disadvantaged people, regardless of their faith background. For both scientific and religious reasons, we need to know more about the capabilities and limits of these new collaborative evangelical efforts to combat urban poverty and inequality in the United States. Based on twelve months of full-time ethnographic fieldwork with faith-based community organizing, community development, and political advocacy groups in Portland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Boston, I find evidence of increased capacity for social reflexivity and collaboration with religious, racial, and political others among “social justice” evangelicals. Given evangelicalism’s sizeable population and growing significance in American public and political life over the past thirty years, these efforts are of great intellectual and ethical import for all those interested in the present and future prospects of religion, democracy, and equality in America.