Reader Poll & A Solicitation for New Columnists
June 30, 2005
Some time ago there was an illuminating and unusually candid article in Christianity Today called “Patrons of the Evangelical Mind,” which opined the following:
Like so much of the Eastern intellectual establishment, some at [the] Pew [Charitable Trust] were troubled by the conservative politics and demagogic character of popular evangelical leaders. But they knew that evangelicalism was a movement of many moods. They saw its scholars as more moderate, better behaved, and less threatening to the status quo than the movement’s populist leaders. So for some at Pew, strengthening evangelical scholarship was a way to housetrain an unruly arrival in the public square by encouraging its better instincts.
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have begun to wonder if this “housetraining” has gone so far in the Evangelical academic and media establishment that is has indeed made good liberals of many in this bloc. What say the people? Have we a burgeoning cop-out at hand among our separated brethren? Email me if you care to comment. This illiberal blog has no place for the free-wheeling comment-feature rabble.
While we’re at it, please send nominations (including self-nominations) for potential regular and irregular columnists who might wish to join my college or cross swords with me here at tNP with a blog column of their own or via RSS. Committed liberals and contented neocons need not apply; other than that, I have no wish to impose further ideological constraints.
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