Brooks asks Keller, a founder of The Gospel Coalition - one of the banner sites of establishment evangelicalism - to provide a “new” agenda to revitalize evangelicalism from within.īut Keller’s ideas - church planting, a “Christian Mind project,” Protestant social teaching - are not new ideas. What he doesn’t seem to recognize is the pace with which evangelical history is already repeating itself. What Brooks’ framing fails to acknowledge, however, is that there’s never been a lack of dissenters - pastors and laypeople - calling on and conversing with evangelicalism to do better, to resist the now-complete ingratiation of evangelical political will with the worst elements of today’s GOP. Brooks also interviewed scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez, though her evangelical pedigree is regularly challenged by evangelical pundits disturbed by both the content and popularity of her book “Jesus and John Wayne.” ![]() ![]() (RNS) - Recently, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a long opinion piece he called “ The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself.” The “dissenters” Brooks cited included such well-known evangelical figures as Russell Moore and Tim Keller, as well as other familiar figures such as Karen Swallow Prior, Thabiti Anyabwile and Lecrae Moore.
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