I've started reading Nancy Pearcey's Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, partially in preparation for "Keeping Religion in its place?" conference
to be held at First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley on Friday, January
27 and Saturday, January 28. I don't know whether I want to spend most
of a Saturday at the conference, but I'm sure the Friday lecture will
be worth hearing.

I have mixed feelings as I start the book. I can sympathize with many
of the things Pearcey has to say: the fundamental way in which
worldviews consciously or unconsciously shape everyone's ideas, the
marginalization of Christian thought from much of high academic
intellectual discourse, the call for Christians to live out their
convictions in every sphere of their lives. But I wonder, why does she
seem (at my early stage of reading) to accept so heartily and
uncritically intelligent design and compassionate conservatism. I'll
have to see for myself once I read further along.