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- Title: Evangelicals Play the Big Time (The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion, Culture, And Public Life)
- Author : First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 71 KB
Description
Frances Fitzgerald is a woman of enthusiasms. Her latest find is "The New Evangelicals," and, in an article by that title in the June 30 issue of the New Yorker, she writes them up with glowing appreciation. The drafters of "An Evangelical Manifesto," discussed in the last issue of FIRST THINGS, probably didn't expect such quick results. When was the last time evangelicals were lionized in the New Yorker? I expect the answer is never. Ms. Fitzgerald, who has never disguised her ultra-left sympathies, is a journalist of distinction who achieved prominence with her 1972 book Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, the gist of which was that the Vietnamese belonged there and the Americans didn't. She joins figures such as Ed Asner, Noam Chomsky, Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden, and Seymour Hersh in petitioning for this and that. She writes regularly for the New York Review of Books and is on the editorial board of The Nation, the country's largest-circulation progressive magazine. In short, she is not the kind of person you would expect to be singing the praises of evangelical Christians. But these evangelicals are different.