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
“Theology is a ghetto activity as insulated and uninteresting as the Saturday religion pages of the local paper. God knows it’s hard to make God boring, but American Christians, aided and abetted by theologians, have accomplished that feat.”
Stanley Hauerwas, Dispatches from the Front, 1994
