Last week I reviewed Carl Trueman’s Republocrat: Confessions of a Liberal Conservative with a mixed response to it. Trueman is right to smack us around and tell us to wake up to the individualism, consumerism, and even secularism in our evangelical religion. At the same time, I think he underappreciates how the American political experiment in liberty realizes biblical principles in a historically unprecedented way. I closed saying, “But with appreciation for that brotherly counsel I remain undisturbed in my conscientious though not uncritical embrace of conservative American politics.”
Those criticisms bear stating, especially during this presidential campaign season when the Republican Party is in a mood for introspection.
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