Peter Edman
Christianity Today, one of the more important evangelical Christian magazines, has an editorial out on the public portrayal of evangelicals in the U.S. media.
”We’re Prime Time, Baby!” (July 2005) notes that evangelicals are being treated with more even-handedness by the news side of the media (not the opinion side, to be sure), and suggests some responses in light of that, including this one:
Second, as noted, we really can’t play the persecution card anymore. As “players,” we will be criticized sharply still, but that’s just part of life in America.
This is extremely encouraging to hear. Publicly claiming to be a persecuted minority may have been a good fund-raising strategy, but it has never been legitimate. It’s well past time for evangelicals to leave it behind.
Gleanings, Faiths and Worldviews, Public Square, Fri 01 Jul 2005
Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
