Oh, my...today's column evokes reactions on multiple levels. At a very personal level, despite having grown up in a church-going family, I found myself as a thirty-something having disdain for evangelical Christians, was overtly (i.e., I commented on it) surprised when somebody I had come to respect turned out to be, shudder, an evangelical, someone who believed the resurrection actually happened. (Now, as an eighty-something, I've long since become that person!)
Then there was the book "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind," by renowned evangelical scholar Mark Noll, described ( in Wikipedia) as "a book about anti-intellectual tendencies within the American evangelical movement."
I take a lot of comfort from projects like your Carver Project, the work of Elaine Ecklund on science and faith, and many many others. But it is definitely an up-hill slog in today's "define your own truth" moment.
Oh, my...today's column evokes reactions on multiple levels. At a very personal level, despite having grown up in a church-going family, I found myself as a thirty-something having disdain for evangelical Christians, was overtly (i.e., I commented on it) surprised when somebody I had come to respect turned out to be, shudder, an evangelical, someone who believed the resurrection actually happened. (Now, as an eighty-something, I've long since become that person!)
Then there was the book "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind," by renowned evangelical scholar Mark Noll, described ( in Wikipedia) as "a book about anti-intellectual tendencies within the American evangelical movement."
I take a lot of comfort from projects like your Carver Project, the work of Elaine Ecklund on science and faith, and many many others. But it is definitely an up-hill slog in today's "define your own truth" moment.
Keep slogging, John!