What David Brooks Got Right About Evangelicalism, and What He Got Wrong

True, false, or something else?

David Brooks’s February 4 essay on evangelicalism was the piece that launched a thousand takes. I saw more displays of real, visceral anger and frustration in Christian circles over that essay than I have seen in a while. I also saw a great deal of heralding and often over-the-top claims that Brooks (or the folks he profiles) was the savior that evangel…