Thanks to Double Toothpicks for reminding us yesterday that it was C.S. Lewis’ birthday, and referring us to a great tribute by Chuck Colson. Colson, who I served as chief of staff and communications director for many years, was convicted of his sin and turned to Jesus Christ after reading the chapter on pride in Lewis’s Mere Christianity. Colson has been in many ways a modern-day Lewis, and he suggests in his piece that “the best way to celebrate Lewis’s birthday is to be at our posts, as he liked to say—with renewed spirits and with probing and informed minds.”
David Brooks' column on John Stott today is a must-read for anyone who thinks Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and the like speak well for evangelicals.
Brooks writes:
Tim Russert is a great journalist, but he made a mistake last weekend. He included Jerry Falwell and Al Sharpton in a discussion on religion and public life.
Inviting these two bozos onto "Meet the Press" to discuss that issue is like inviting Britney Spears and Larry Flynt to discuss D. H. Lawrence. Naturally, they got into a demeaning food fight that would have lowered the intellectual discourse of your average nursery school.
This is why so many people are so misinformed about evangelical Christians. There is a world of difference between real-life people of faith and the made-for-TV, Elmer Gantry-style blowhards who are selected to represent them. Falwell and Pat Robertson are held up as spokesmen for evangelicals, which is ridiculous. Meanwhile people like John Stott, who are actually important, get ignored.
--James Jewell
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