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February 01, 2005
The Conservative Evangelical Mind
About a week ago I posted the following link over at Matt Crash! In the post, I discuss the lack of evangelical involvement in intellectual conservatism. Think about this for a moment. The major conservative publications are National Review, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, the American Spectator and perhaps the New Criterion. I can think two evangelicals working for those publications: Fred Barnes and Hugh Hewitt. That's it. No one else. This is rather disheartening.
Evangelicals with a conservative bent should ask themselves why we have found ourselves in this predicament. It can easily be fixed, mind you, but here at our new venue, I hope to call attention to this issue. I don't mean to imply that the our friends at these publications - be they Catholic, Orthodox, Hebrew or otherwise - are in any way bad. Indeed this is not the case. Yet if evangelicals want to maintain the influence we constantly discuss, then it's imperative that we train our minds to become part of the vibrant intellectuall spirit of conservatism.
Posted by Matt at February 1, 2005 10:35 PM
Comments
Matt, I believe Terry Eastland of the Weekly Standard is also an evangelical. But, you're right, the list seems a bit too short.
Posted by: Rick Brady at February 2, 2005 12:16 AM
I was going to mention Terry Eastland but Rick beat me to it.
I agree...that list is far too short. I believe that this may be a symptom of the larger problem of evangelicals retreating from the secular for so long that we no longer are salt and light in the culture. It's time to step up and get involved again.
One of the beautiful things about blogging is it provides a forum in which we can engage in intellectual discourse. It's entirely possible that what we write on our blogs will open the door to opportunities to write for other publications. Just this week the guys from Powerline we hired to be guest columnists on the Weekly Standard website. That's a reflection of the excellent product they have been producing on their site. I believe that other similar opportunities may arise for bloggers that prove themselves through their own posts.
Posted by: Daddypundit at February 2, 2005 12:41 AM
Thanks for the corrections, guys.
Posted by: Matt at February 2, 2005 08:10 AM