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Article: Incarnation works.(M.E.M.O.)(Column)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 11, 1996
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An article from the September 23 Wall Street Journal included a quote I thought I'd find relevant around Christmas: "Liberals argue that incarnation doesn't work." This formulation made me think right away about the Washington Post article a few years ago which said that evangelicals are not very bright, well educated or well-off. One is never allowed to forget that gaffe: the whining sort of evangelicals with Ph. D.s, after they step out of their BMWs, quote it every five minutes to remind the rest of the country how beleaguered they are.
When I read the Wall Street Journal line I thought: tit for tat. Conservatives took a pounding and now liberals must. ...