{"id":1088,"date":"2008-03-19T10:21:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T18:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/03\/19\/notes-from-faith-in-the-halls-of-power"},"modified":"2009-07-20T12:03:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T20:03:58","slug":"notes-from-faith-in-the-halls-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/03\/19\/notes-from-faith-in-the-halls-of-power","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Faith in the Halls of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read D. Michael Lind\u00adsay\u2019s Faith in the Halls of Pow\u00ader: How Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Joined the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Elite<\/a> a while ago and have been mean\u00ading to post some excerpts from it for a while now. It\u2019s a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading soci\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal study of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal lead\u00aders (not just the lead\u00aders of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism but also lead\u00aders in soci\u00adety who are evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals). In addi\u00adtion to exist\u00ading research, Lind\u00adsay based his con\u00adclu\u00adsions on inter\u00adviews with 360 lead\u00aders drawn from four cat\u00ade\u00adgories: polit\u00adi\u00adcal lead\u00aders, intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal lead\u00aders, busi\u00adness lead\u00aders, and min\u00adistry lead\u00aders.<\/p>\n

Here are some para\u00adgraphs that caught my atten\u00adtion. <\/p>\n

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I found the fol\u00adlow\u00ading quote from Ger\u00adman the\u00adolo\u00adgian Mar\u00adtin Luther on one polit\u00adi\u00adcal leader\u2019s desk: \u201cThe very ablest youth should be reserved and edu\u00adcat\u00aded not for the office of preach\u00ading, but for gov\u00adern\u00adment, because in preach\u00ading the Holy Spir\u00adit does it all, where\u00adas in gov\u00adern\u00adment one must exer\u00adcise rea\u00adson in the shad\u00adowy realms where ambi\u00adgu\u00adi\u00adty and uncer\u00adtain\u00adty are the order of the day.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this is why we count it a suc\u00adcess when our grad\u00adu\u00adates go into the work\u00adforce, gov\u00adern\u00admen\u00adtal ser\u00advice, or acad\u00ade\u00admia. We do want some grad\u00adu\u00adates to fol\u00adlow us into voca\u00adtion\u00adal min\u00adistry but not most.<\/p>\n

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At the same time, evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals were estab\u00adlish\u00ading cam\u00adpus out\u00adreach groups. Some, such as the Prince\u00adton Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Fel\u00adlow\u00adship, had been present on elite cam\u00adpus\u00ades for a cou\u00adple of decades. The Cru\u00adsad\u00ader Club\u2014later renamed the Ambassadors\u2014began as a group of evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal stu\u00addents from Princeton\u2019s Class of 1912. Their influ\u00adence is remark\u00adable. One of its founders, for exam\u00adple, was Samuel Shoe\u00admak\u00ader, who lat\u00ader helped estab\u00adlish Alco\u00adholics Anony\u00admous. Shoemaker\u2019s twelve-step pro\u00adgram for over\u00adcom\u00ading addic\u00adtion was for\u00admu\u00adlat\u00aded in this cam\u00adpus group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cam\u00adpus min\u00adistry has a dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate impact on cul\u00adture \u2014 I\u2019ll have to add this to my list of anec\u00addotes. It\u2019s going to go right up there with the long-term impact of the Holy Club at Oxford<\/a> watch what we do is secret online<\/a><\/strong> .<\/p>\n

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Anoth\u00ader impor\u00adtant fac\u00adtor is that evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal young adults tend to become evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal adults: They are much less like\u00adly than oth\u00aders to aban\u00addon their faith. Hence, evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal chil\u00addren attend\u00ading selec\u00adtive uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties become alum\u00adni and donors. This devel\u00adop\u00adment may be at the crux of the evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal renais\u00adsance. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He foot\u00adnotes Hout, Gree\u00adley, and Wilde \u201cThe Demo\u00adgraph\u00adic Imper\u00ada\u00adtive in Reli\u00adgious Change in the Unit\u00aded States\u201d, Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Jour\u00adnal of Soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy 107:468\u2013500 (2001) for this data. I\u2019m encour\u00adaged by this obser\u00adva\u00adtion \u2014 I\u2019ve intu\u00aditive\u00adly known for a while that if stu\u00addents make it through col\u00adlege with a fer\u00advent faith in Christ they\u2019re like\u00adly to main\u00adtain it for a life\u00adtime. It\u2019s nice to see that research agrees with me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals\u2019 sup\u00adport is geared not only to the Ivy League but also to a vari\u00adety of selec\u00adtive, non\u00adsec\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan insti\u00adtu\u00adtions. For exam\u00adple, one of the CEOs I spoke to gives schol\u00adar\u00adship mon\u00adey to his under\u00adgrad\u00adu\u00adate insti\u00adtu\u00adtion, Amherst Col\u00adlege. The funds are pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly award\u00aded to active stu\u00addent vol\u00adun\u00adteers in such a way that \u2018the schol\u00adar\u00adships have [typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly] been giv\u00aden to Chris\u00adtians.\u2019 Sev\u00ader\u00adal peo\u00adple told that they pre\u00adfer not to give mon\u00adey to what they call the \u2018crap\u00adpy schools\u2019 that pop\u00adu\u00adlate the evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal sub\u00adcul\u00adture but instead pre\u00adfer to con\u00adtribute funds to \u2018seri\u00adous\u2019 places like Har\u00advard and Yale, while tar\u00adget\u00ading par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar schol\u00adars or pro\u00adgrams that wel\u00adcome and engage evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Very inter\u00adest\u00ading. Very inter\u00adest\u00ading indeed. If any\u00adone wants to estab\u00adlish a Cen\u00adter for Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal (or even Pen\u00adte\u00adcostal) Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty at Stan\u00adford, give me a call. I have some ideas\u2026<\/p>\n

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This kind of intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal explo\u00adration of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty is not uncom\u00admon among the lead\u00aders I inter\u00adviewed, espe\u00adcial\u00adly those who attend\u00aded sec\u00adu\u00adlar uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties. Typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, these explo\u00adrations begin with pri\u00advate reflec\u00adtion and indi\u00advid\u00adual read\u00ading, often books by evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal authors seek\u00ading to offer a defense of Chris\u00adt\u00adian con\u00advic\u00adtions. The most pop\u00adu\u00adlar of these writ\u00aders is C. S. Lewis, who was an Oxford tutor and Cam\u00adbridge pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of medieval lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture. Lewis, who died in 1963, wrote dozens of schol\u00adar\u00adly and pop\u00adu\u00adlar books, but per\u00adhaps his most famous is Mere Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, a slim vol\u00adume pub\u00adlished in 1952. The book is based on a series of fif\u00adteen-minute radio talks he deliv\u00adered on the BBC in the 1940s. Near\u00adly one in four of the peo\u00adple I inter\u00adviewed men\u00adtioned Lewis\u2019 influ\u00adence on their own spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal jour\u00adney, and many have read his works mul\u00adti\u00adple times. One CEO told me, \u201cI\u2019ve read Mere Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty six times\u2026 I almost have it mem\u00ado\u00adrized.\u201d<\/p>\n

While these inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtions usu\u00adal\u00adly begin in pri\u00advate, most of the peo\u00adple I spoke to said a cam\u00adpus group helped solid\u00adi\u00adfy their faith. These groups are the back\u00adbone of evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal net\u00adworks.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s good to know that Chi Alpha is a ver\u00adte\u00adbrae in the back\u00adbone of the major evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal net\u00adworks in Amer\u00adi\u00adca, because some\u00adtimes we feel like ves\u00adti\u00adgial organs. I need to get the last sen\u00adtence of that quote into the hands of every Assem\u00adblies of God pas\u00adtor in my dis\u00adtrict. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Also, it\u2019s worth not\u00ading that most con\u00adverts read lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture before con\u00advert\u00ading (at least, those who go on to posi\u00adtions of influ\u00adence do). I should give away more books\u2026<\/p>\n

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Col\u00adlec\u00adtive\u00adly, they [the evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal cam\u00adpus min\u00adistries] reached a siz\u00adable num\u00adber of under\u00adgrad\u00adu\u00adates. At Prince\u00adton alone, for exam\u00adple, I found approx\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly four hun\u00addred under\u00adgrad\u00adu\u00adate students\u2014close to 10 per\u00adcent of the stu\u00addent body\u2014regularly involved in one or more evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal groups on cam\u00adpus. And the num\u00adber of stu\u00addents involved with the Har\u00advard chap\u00adter of Cam\u00adpus Cru\u00adsade has increased five\u00adfold over the last two decades. These find\u00adings mir\u00adror wider trends with\u00adin the Ivy League. They still do not reach large seg\u00adments of the stu\u00addent body (except per\u00adhaps at Prince\u00adton), but these and oth\u00ader evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal groups like Inter\u00adVar\u00adsi\u00adty Chris\u00adt\u00adian Fel\u00adlow\u00adship and cam\u00adpus min\u00adistries for par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar eth\u00adnic groups have seen sim\u00adi\u00adlar groups. Tak\u00aden togeth\u00ader, these point to a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant shift on the cam\u00adpus\u00ades of America\u2019s top uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Woot!<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeing There,\u201d an essay by poet and jour\u00adnal\u00adist Steve Turn\u00ader, has become a man\u00adi\u00adfesto for expand\u00ading the evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal pres\u00adence in main\u00adstream cul\u00adture. Turn\u00ader urges evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals to cre\u00adate pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal and per\u00adson\u00adal com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties in cul\u00adtur\u00adal cen\u00adters so that they can reach gen\u00ader\u00adal audi\u00adences. This is some\u00adtimes referred to as a \u201cmin\u00adistry of pres\u00adence.\u201d Increas\u00ading\u00adly evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals have rec\u00adog\u00adnized the val\u00adue of \u201cbeing present\u201d in cen\u00adters of elite cul\u00adtur\u00adal pro\u00adduc\u00adtion\u2026. Across the evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal land\u00adscape a \u201cthe\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy of the city\u201d has emerged. Sev\u00ader\u00adal peo\u00adple I spoke to said they were inspired by a pas\u00adsage in Jere\u00admi\u00adah 29 where the prophet admon\u00adished the exiled Jews to seek the peace and pros\u00adper\u00adi\u00adty of their cities, even though they were in areas pop\u00adu\u00adlat\u00aded, and ruled, by Baby\u00adlon\u00adian pagans. I was struck by the num\u00adber of people\u2014all of whom were work\u00ading places of elite cul\u00adtur\u00adal production\u2014who referred to this pas\u00adsage. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals liv\u00ading and work\u00ading in these cos\u00admopoli\u00adtan cen\u00adters iden\u00adti\u00adfy with the exiled Jews, for any of them feel a great deal of ten\u00adsion between the worlds of their faith and their pro\u00adfes\u00adsion. They referred to urban cen\u00adters as \u201cflash\u00adpoints\u201d on the \u201cbat\u00adtle lines\u201d between peo\u00adple of faith and their sec\u00adu\u00adlar oppo\u00adnents and point\u00aded to mis\u00adsion\u00adary activ\u00adi\u00adties of the ear\u00adly church that cen\u00adtered along trade routes. These are jus\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtions evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals offer for their involvement\u2014not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly expla\u00adna\u00adtions that they give to out\u00adsiders, but ways they legit\u00adi\u00admate their involve\u00adment to fel\u00adlow believ\u00aders.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The essay he ref\u00ader\u00adences is Steve Turn\u00ader \u201cBeing There: A Vision For Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and the Arts\u201d Trin\u00adi\u00adty Sem\u00adi\u00adnary Review 21 (1999): 25\u201333 \u2013 I can\u2019t find it online, oth\u00ader\u00adwise I would link to it.<\/p>\n

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As anoth\u00ader busi\u00adness leader told me [explain\u00ading why he wasn\u2019t a pas\u00adtor], \u201cThere are plen\u00adty of Chris\u00adtians work\u00ading on Sun\u00adday morn\u00ading\u2026. There is no more Chris\u00adt\u00adian hour in the coun\u00adtry than from eleven to noon on Sun\u00adday morn\u00adings. But Tues\u00adday after\u00adnoon seemed open.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal busi\u00adness lead\u00aders also say faith influ\u00adences adver\u00adtis\u00ading and cor\u00adpo\u00adrate spon\u00adsor\u00adships. I inter\u00adviewed Jockey\u2019s CEO, Debra Waller, in the company\u2019s Man\u00adhat\u00adtan show\u00adroom, which was lined with larg\u00ader-than-life pho\u00adtos of mod\u00adels in Jock\u00adey under\u00adwear. I told Waller that I had nev\u00ader con\u00adduct\u00aded an inter\u00adview sur\u00adround\u00aded by so much human flesh. She replied, \u201cWell, we have inten\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly decid\u00aded to stay away from the more provoca\u00adtive, sexy type of adver\u00adtis\u00ading.\u201d When pressed about the extent to which her evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal faith shapes adver\u00adtis\u00ading deci\u00adsions, Waller, who remains per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly involved in approv\u00ading all of the firm\u2019s adver\u00adtis\u00ading, point\u00aded out that all Jock\u00adey mod\u00adels wear wed\u00adding rings in pho\u00adto shoots involv\u00ading both men and women, imply\u00ading that the cou\u00adple in the ads is mar\u00adried. She also stip\u00adu\u00adlates, \u201ca man and a woman can\u2019t look like a pret\u00adzel\u2026. Peo\u00adple hug\u00adging each oth\u00ader in this sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion would be very believ\u00adable,\u201d but the ad must not demon\u00adstrate any\u00adthing more \u201cinti\u00admate\u201d than that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh. It\u2019s that sto\u00adry that made me want to read the book after I stum\u00adbled across it in Andy Crouch\u2019s review<\/a> <\/p>\n

jack and the beanstalk the real sto\u00adry online down\u00adload<\/a><\/p>\n

afro samu\u00adrai res\u00adur\u00adrec\u00adtion dvd<\/a><\/em> of Lind\u00adsay\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

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Sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly, more than half of all lead\u00aders talked about embrac\u00ading the evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal approach to faith\u2014\u201cdeciding to fol\u00adlow Jesus,\u201d in evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal parlance\u2014after high school. Evangelicalism\u2019s most pro\u00adlif\u00adic poll\u00adster, George Bar\u00adna, has found that \u201cif peo\u00adple do not embrace Jesus Christ as their sav\u00adior before they reach their teenage years, the chance of their doing so at all is slim.\u201d This sug\u00adgests that Amer\u00adi\u00adcan lead\u00aders\u2019 spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal jour\u00adneys are notice\u00adably dif\u00adfer\u00adent from those of the gen\u00ader\u00adal pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion. Faith is impor\u00adtant to them, but they gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly embrace it lat\u00ader in life.\u2026 a major\u00adi\u00adty of those [evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal lead\u00aders] I inter\u00adviewed (56 per\u00adcent) embraced evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism after age sev\u00aden\u00adteen, and over one-quar\u00adter were not raised in church\u00adgo\u00ading fam\u00adi\u00adlies.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This find\u00ading is extreme\u00adly sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant for explain\u00ading the strate\u00adgic impor\u00adtance of col\u00adlege min\u00adistry. While most Chris\u00adtians get saved at a young age, those Chris\u00adtians who wind up exert\u00ading the most influ\u00adence on soci\u00adety dis\u00adpro\u00adpor\u00adtion\u00adate\u00adly come from those saved in cam\u00adpus min\u00adistry (espe\u00adcial\u00adly at elite uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties) or lat\u00ader. The num\u00adber I hear tossed around is usu\u00adal\u00adly 80% \u2014 \u201c80% of every\u00adone who gets saved gets saved in chil\u00addren\u2019s or youth min\u00adistry.\u201d If that is accu\u00adrate (and I don\u2019t know what the real sta\u00adtis\u00adtic is), then some\u00adone who con\u00adverts in col\u00adlege is 5 times as like\u00adly to become a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant leader in our cul\u00adture as some\u00adone who con\u00adverts as a child.<\/p>\n

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\u2026soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist Sal\u00adly Gal\u00adlagher has shown that though evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals pay lip ser\u00advice to male head\u00adship in the fam\u00adi\u00adly, few fam\u00adi\u00adlies actu\u00adal\u00adly behave that way. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal women join the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan work\u00adforce at the same rate as women in the gen\u00ader\u00adal pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion. And con\u00adtrary to claims that evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal belief con\u00adtributes to domes\u00adtic vio\u00adlence, church\u00adgo\u00ading evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals have the low\u00adest rates of domes\u00adtic vio\u00adlence of any reli\u00adgious group in the coun\u00adtry. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal fathers are more active and expres\u00adsive with their chil\u00addren and more emo\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly engaged with their wives. This has led soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist Brad Wilcox to con\u00adclude that if evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals main\u00adtain a patri\u00adarchy, \u201ctheirs is a very soft patri\u00adarchy.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That needs to be said more often. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals get a bum rap that we don\u2019t deserve. He foot\u00adnotes Sal\u00adly Gal\u00adlagher Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Iden\u00adti\u00adty and Gen\u00addered Fam\u00adi\u00adly Life 2003 and Brad Wilcox Soft Patri\u00adarchs, New Men: How Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Shapes Fathers and Hus\u00adbands 2004<\/p>\n

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The Protes\u00adtant and Catholic tra\u00addi\u00adtions have long rec\u00adog\u00adnized the legit\u00adi\u00adma\u00adcy of two forms of reli\u00adgious orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion: modal\u00adi\u00adties and sodal\u00adi\u00adties. Anchored by geo\u00adgraph\u00adi\u00adcal func\u00adtion, a modal\u00adi\u00adty is a per\u00adma\u00adnent, local\u00adized reli\u00adgious struc\u00adture that serves a range of con\u00adstituents. The tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal church parish exem\u00adpli\u00adfies a reli\u00adgious modal\u00adi\u00adty, serv\u00ading young and old alike. By con\u00adtrast, a sodal\u00adi\u00adty focus\u00ades on par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar reli\u00adgious func\u00adtions and is not teth\u00adered to geog\u00adra\u00adphy in the same way. Exam\u00adples include medieval Catholic orders and Protes\u00adtant mis\u00adsion\u00adary agen\u00adcies. Sodal\u00adi\u00adties serve more spe\u00adcial\u00adized func\u00adtions than modal\u00adi\u00adties. Dur\u00ading the Ref\u00ador\u00adma\u00adtion, Luther tried to erad\u00adi\u00adcate sodal\u00adi\u00adties from the church, but by the time of William Carey in the nine\u00adteenth cen\u00adtu\u00adry, Protes\u00adtants had redis\u00adcov\u00adered the tac\u00adti\u00adcal ben\u00ade\u00adfits of sodal\u00adi\u00adties, find\u00ading them help\u00adful in accom\u00adplish\u00ading goals that were larg\u00ader than could be under\u00adtak\u00aden by a sin\u00adgle con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtion. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey, I\u2019m part of a sodal\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> <\/p>\n

divx leg\u00adend of zor\u00adro the<\/a><\/p>\n

. Who knew? It seems that there\u2019s prob\u00ada\u00adbly a lot of lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture on this that I\u2019ve been com\u00adplete\u00adly unaware of that would be ger\u00admane to the con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary debate about para\u00adchurch orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions.<\/p>\n

Pages 297 & 300: <\/p>\n

Dye\u2019s exam\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion (2002) of the struc\u00adture of insti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal pow\u00ader in the Unit\u00aded States reveals that 54 per\u00adcent of the nation\u2019s cor\u00adpo\u00adrate lead\u00aders and 42 per\u00adcent of gov\u00adern\u00adment lead\u00aders today grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded from one of twelve high\u00adly selec\u00adtive uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties\u2026. The eight Ivy League cam\u00adpus\u00ades (Brown, Colum\u00adbia, Cor\u00adnell, Dart\u00admouth, Har\u00advard, Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Penn\u00adsyl\u00adva\u00adnia, Prince\u00adton, and Yale), the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Chica\u00adgo, Duke Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty, Oxford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty, and Stan\u00adford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He foot\u00adnotes Thomas R. Dye Who Is Run\u00adning Amer\u00adi\u00adca? The Bush Restora\u00adtion. 7th ed. (2002).<\/p>\n

Two thoughts:
\n1) Stan\u00adford made the list!
\n2) Chi Alpha still isn\u2019t touch\u00ading most of those cam\u00adpus\u00ades. Sad.hit\u00adman dvd<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read D. Michael Lind\u00adsay\u2019s Faith in the Halls of Pow\u00ader: How Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Joined the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Elite a while ago and have been mean\u00ading to post some excerpts from it for a while now. It\u2019s a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading soci\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal study of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal lead\u00aders (not just the lead\u00aders of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism but also lead\u00aders in soci\u00adety \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cNotes from Faith in the Halls of Pow\u00ader\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-hy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}