It received one of Christianity Today‘s 2008 book awards, and it was Oxford University Press’s nominee for the 2008 nonfiction Pulitzer Prize. It’s been a widely reviewed book, a widely praised book and in fact, it was named one of the best books of 2007 by Publishers Weekly. Well, I call your attention to Michael’s bio in the biographical descriptions, but one thing you’ll want to know about Michael Lindsay is he wrote a very important book called Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, published by Oxford University Press. Michael Lindsay tells me that he had to rewrite his entire speech because of Michael Gerson’s presentation yesterday – (laughter) – but he was able to do that. MICHAEL CROMARTIE: Our topic this morning is something that you all write about a lot, and that is the new shape of American evangelicalism. Michael Cromartie, Vice President, Ethics & Public Policy Center Senior Advisor, Pew Forum on Religion & Public LifeĬultural omnivores appeal to populists and cosmopolitans Michael Lindsay, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rice Universityĭavid Kirkpatrick, Washington Correspondent, The New York Times David Kirkpatrick, Washington Correspondent for The New York Times, added some history about “old-school” evangelicalism and ways of categorizing the changes that are occurring within the American evangelical movement.ĭ.

Lindsay discussed the implications of his findings for this election year as well as the future of the evangelical movement. He also found that the deep divisions in this movement are not between the political left and right, not between young and old, but between “cosmopolitan” and “populist” evangelicals. In the three years of his extensive research, he made surprising discoveries about the true power brokers and centers of power in American evangelicalism. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, described eight fallacies or misconceptions he held as he began his book.

Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2008 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life.ĭ.

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