An excerpt from Jesus and Justice: Evangelicals, Race, and American Politics by Peter Goodwin Heltzel. A review of Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South by Steven Miller. Behind the scandal-tainted C Street house is an organization big on protecting its own and small on church ties and theology. Sex and power inside "the C Street House": Sanford, Ensign, and other regulars receive guidance from the invisible fundamentalist group known as the Family (and an excerpt from The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism's Shadow Elite by Jeff Sharlet, and more). A review of Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches by Robert Wuthnow. From CT, a review of World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty is Vital to American National Security by Thomas F. Farr; and a review of Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden. A review of Victoria Clark's Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism. Christian fundamentalism helped turn Somalia into the next staging ground for Islamic radicalism. The modern Evangelical Left does not want to defend America, and the great mid-20th century theologian Karl Barth might partly be at fault. Totally evangelical: First Jesus, then Sylvia Plath, then pot — and so on.
