Maybe we can work out some sort of exchange program with The Corner. They can loan us an agnostic and we can send over an evangelical.
To be fair, I suspect there are a number of evangelicals that write for that blog who just don’t identify themselves as evangelical on there (Mark Hemingway or Maggie Gallagher, perhaps?). NR has always tilted Catholic—as has First Things which is often mistaken for a “Roman Catholic journal”—so its not surprising that their most vocal religious folks (Ramesh Ponnuru, Kathryn Lopez) would be from that side of the Tiber.
John Mark does has a point, though, about the ratio of professed evangelicals to professed atheists being oddly disproportionate. That is curious.
October 20th, 2009 | 2:54 pm | #1
Good point. My point is simply that Catholics there often write as Catholics on Catholic things . . . and atheists as atheists . . . but it is rare (I am not recalling) someone having a good insider view of evangelicals. If Pentecostal/charismatics count as evangelicals (as I assume they do), then this globally exploding movement of conservative religious is also weirdly under served.
October 20th, 2009 | 4:41 pm | #2
I’ve been pretty up front about my Lutheranism on The Corner FWIW:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Njk2Zjk3YmFhMjU2MTM1MjYzYThhYzY4OTc4NWIyNjQ=
And that’s just one example. Obviously, Lutherans may not be evangelical in the contemporary cultural sense, but if we’re talking about “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes” then heck yeah, I’m evangelical.
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