Ep. 650: Bonnie Kristian in Defense of Evangelicalism

About this episode

Bonnie Kristian is a journalist, author and deputy editor at Christianity Today whose work has appeared in publications including The Week, The New York Times and Politico. She came to journalism while studying theology at an evangelical seminary, and that combination of theological training and journalistic experience has shaped much of her work. Her new book, In Defense of Evangelicalism: A Response to Its Cultured Despisers , makes a provocative argument: Evangelicalism has serious problems, but the increasingly common wholesale condemnation of the movement is unfair, and evangelicalism is worth reforming rather than abandoning. Kristian takes on critics including Kristin Du Mez, Beth…