Total Truth...

Personal friend and friend of Torrey Nancey Pearcey is getting press for her latest book, Total Truth. She's secured a C-SPAN2 spot to talk about it. Total Truth offers the best explanation possible for why Kerry manages to be a Catholic while still supporting abortion. In short, he adopted the Fact/Value division and relegated his faith to the private sector. This was never so obvious as when he was questioned about it in the second(?) debate. Pearcey argues that once the Fact/Value split is adopted, religious claims (of any sort!) automatically lose credence in the public square. Pearcey also gives an excellent history of the evangelical movement. It's brief, but insightful and illuminating, particularly if you are interested in the origins of evangelical anti-intellectualism. It's been some months since I have read it--I read an advanced copy--but I would recommend it to anyone interested in cultural analysis. Pearcey has her finger on the cultural pulse of America, and analyzes it (to mix metaphors!) as well as anyone.