Posts Tagged ‘David French’

The Folly of Young “Post-Partisan” Evangelicals

Posted: Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

A message from Jefrey Breshears, Founder and President of The Areopagus

Friends;

A lot of information comes through our computers these days, and much of it (unless your spam filter needs to be updated) it good and useful. Occasionally, though, something comes through that is a “MUST READ.” The attached article is just that: a “MUST READ” — ESPECIALLY FOR YOUNG ADULT CHRISTIANS AND THOSE WHO HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO, OR INFLUENCE WITH, YOUNG ADULT CHRISTIANS.

As you know, David French spoke at our Areopagus Forum several months ago. He’s a senior counsel with the ACLJ (and formerly with the Alliance Defense Fund), and is heading up the case against Vanderbilt University’s policy whereby the administration, under the guise of promoting liberal/left-wing PC “tolerance,” is forcing campus Christian organizations to drop all doctrinal and moral standards for those in leadership positions.

In the attached article, David addresses a major problem among young Evangelicals today: Having been misinformed, misled and compromised by the unrelenting assault on Christian and conservative values by the mainstream media, academia, and pop culture, many young Evangelicals have bought into the idea that they are above politics and that the culture war is merely a conservative myth. Like French, I also believed this lie for many years until I emerged from the fog of academia and began engaging real life with my eyes wide-open. (more…)