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Editor's Bookshelf: Getting Cynical About Ourselves

An interview with Mark Ellingsen, the author of Blessed Are the Cynical

David Neff | posted 2/01/2003 12:00AM

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I live in Cobb County, Georgia, where there's a controversy about the school board wanting to open up the discussion of the theory of evolution to creationist ideas. Are we wasting our time fighting on those issues? Let's think strategically. I don't want a school that's devoid of religion. But what are our smartest ways to proceed as Christians in getting religion into the curriculum? Could it be by stressing the Augustinian character of the American system?

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Blessed Are the Cynical: How Original Sin Can Make America A Better Place by Mark Ellingsen is this month's selection for the Christianity Today Editor's Bookshelf. Elsewhere on our site, you can:

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