From the NY Times, and from a journalist who is careful to keep his distance from evangelical Christians, comes an observation that they deserve better than current public opinion gives them:
"In liberal circles, evangelicals constitute one of the few groups that it’s safe to mock openly. . . Yet the liberal caricature of evangelicals is incomplete and unfair."
Nicholas Kristoff then tells the story of a doctor he met in Angola who has spent 37 years at a rural hospital. He raised his family there, one child getting polio and another malaria, all of them subject to danger and malnutrition at times. Kristoff says that a disproportionate number of "aid workers" he's met (like Dr. Foster) are evangelicals, nuns, or priests.
Are Dr. Foster, his parents, and his grandparents (all missionaries) living insignificant lives of "speck-less-ness" as Bill Nye puts it? Or are they examples of ordinary Christians living meaningful lives of genuine goodness?
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