Evangelicals trying to save evangelicalism

Grateful for this piece from @nytdavidbrooks looking at the possibility of a renewed evangelicalism. A must read. https://t.co/1MM1cVASrt

— NAE (@NAEvangelicals) February 4, 2022

I appreciate @nytdavidbrooks' overview of many anti-Trump evangelicals' disillusionment & their efforts to redress racism, patriarchy, partisanship, etc–but he could/should have highlighted how a minority of evangelicals have been doing this for 40+ yearshttps://t.co/CyvipaFJhr

— Brantley W. Gasaway (@BrantleyGasaway) February 4, 2022

Since many of you are asking what I think, later today. Time to work. But my comments will be about the structure of the op-ed, not the people, and why can't Brooks et al ever really deal with the rot at the core.

— ProfB (@AntheaButler) February 4, 2022

Very true. Centering hope for Evangelicals on individuals also perpetuates the fundamental problem of their navel gazing…and the canny ability they have to draw the rest of us into their issues.

— ProfB (@AntheaButler) February 4, 2022

"A certain percentage of these macho celebrities inflict their power on the vulnerable and especially on young women." Did David Brooks somehow get an early copy of CELEBRITIES FOR JESUS? 👀https://t.co/m9wS7k8Kle

— Katelyn Beaty (@KatelynBeaty) February 4, 2022

"There can probably be no evangelical renewal if the movement does not divorce itself from the lust for partisan political power. … Those who are leading the evangelical renewal know they need one." https://t.co/rQDAYMcfOl

— Daniel Silliman (@danielsilliman) February 4, 2022

Wow, that David Brooks essay today is like the ultimate exercise in evangelical name-dropping.

— Tony Jones (@jonestony) February 4, 2022

What kind of world is it where David Brooks is writing pieces that get pretty close to the bone? This one runs deep.

I see he stole my comparison between evangelicals and mid-century American Communists. (Of course I’m kidding, but it was interesting.)https://t.co/QicUrVWu5N

— Greg Carey (@Greg_Carey) February 4, 2022

When you’re citing Kristin Kobes Du Mez as someone trying to save evangelicalism from itself, you’re doing it wrong. Her more recent statements make clear she’s hostile to orthodoxy, not evangelicalism. https://t.co/s0mCSsdDJR

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 4, 2022

How do you feel about this piece? Does this not feel indicative of @EWErickson’s point? Difference is, one side of infighting has megaphone of NYT, WaPo, & Atlantic at their disposal. And they use it to dump on people who have no such recourse to respond.https://t.co/sqk3Rvnv2U

— Megan Basham (@megbasham) February 4, 2022

I keep reading pieces about evangelicals who are shocked – shocked! – at the authoritarian tendencies of their movement, but those tendencies are baked into evangelicalism. whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap https://t.co/FIC9eZs5fr

— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) February 4, 2022

I wouldn’t trust most of the people highlighted in this article (except maybe David Bailey), and, @nytdavidbrooks, the person 100% missing who is doing the MOST for keeping some of us even being willing to identify as evangelical anymore is @RevDrBarber.https://t.co/KtkeLseibE

— Stephen Roach Knight (@knightopia) February 4, 2022

This isn’t a call for renewal. It’s an exercise in rebranding.

For Brooks Christian = conservative evangelical and he thinks the core problem is political partisanship. It’s not. It’s conservative evangelical theology itself that needs dismantling.

https://t.co/8iGES7MIxF

— Zack Hunt (@ZaackHunt) February 4, 2022