(Re)Discovering the evangelical mind

Every so often someone in the popular press will make the apparently earth-shattering discovery that evangelical Christians can actually think and are not, after all, “poor, uneducated and easy to command,” as journalist Michael Weisskopf notoriously put it nearly two decades ago. The latest example of this discovery appeared in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by Jonathan Fitzgerald called “Winning Not Just Hearts but Minds.” The subtitle does more than hint at where the article will go: “Evangelicals move, slowly, toward the intellectual life.”

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