Chris Heard at Higgaion has a good summary and review of a new book entitled Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and and Threatens America: An Evangelical’s Lament by Randall Balmer. He brings out a number of good points, especially the section on how Baptist have abandoned the seperation of church and state. This was something that bothered me greatly when I was a Baptist, since Baptists were the ones who have historically fought hardest for such seperation.
It is interesting how the Internet has changed our interaction with books. Although I would love to read this book, I know I will never get around to it. But I have absorbed the gist of the book by reading the blog of another scholar who actually didn’t read the book but listened to it on tape.