I participated in an interview this week with Janet Mefferd who has a radio show out of Dallas on the Salem Radio Network. I was not sure what to expect because in the places I have lived her syndicated show has not been available. The SRN affiliates near me have followed the Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher (nee Laura Ingraham), Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt line-up and in that company I don’t suppose a book about the tensions, if not antagonisms, between evangelicals and conservatives would go over very well. My sense is that they would prefer to continue the biased-liberal-media mantra that has given evangelicals a pass from conservative pundits who don’t seem to be troubled by what “Christian America” means even for conservative Roman Catholics and Jewish Americans.
But to my surprise, Janet was unbelievably positive about From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin, even to the point of insisting that evangelicals need a megadose of Augustine’s two cities for their considerations about public life. For anyone interested in the interview they may go here.
I also conducted a couple of other pleasant interviews recently, one with Scott Oakland at ReformedCast.com, and one with Matt Lewis at DailyCaller.com.
And to fill out this shameless post of self-promotion (my publicist makes me be all about me), Oldlifers may want to check out the interviews available through Office Hours from Westminster California. Unfortunately for me, the interviews at Office Hours for Season Three do not include me. That’s why I’ll be listening to Seasons One and Two.
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And, while you’re tuning in to channel WDGH, be sure not to miss Darryl’s conversation with Michael Gerson next month at Christ Reformed Church in Washington, DC (www.ChristReformedDC.org for info). We’ll have the audio up after the event.
Gerson is a Washington Post columnist, and was the chief speechwriter and a senior domestic policy adviser for President George W. Bush (full disclosure: I was perhaps the most junior Bush appointee of all time, service as Director of Communications at the National Endowment for the Humanities). Hart interacts with Gerson’s “Heroic Conservatism” in chapter 7 of “From Graham to Palin.”
The conversation will be moderated by Terry Eastland, Publisher of The Weekly Standard, who wrote a thoughtful review of David VanDrunen’s “Natural Law and the Two Kingdoms.”
The venue is historic Grace Reformed Church, where we currently worship. Grace Reformed was the church home of President Theodore Roosevelt.
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Since my pastor’s not “all about me” (he doesn’t even have his own blog), he likely would have the good taste to refrain from pointing out that Janet Mefferd was a member of our church in Bedford, Texas until she moved to the other side of the D/FW Metroplex.
But I’m not encumbered with such good taste.
That’s why it makes sense to me that she would be so affirmative of your thesis; it also explains how she would have heard of you in the first place to know she ought to interview you. 😉
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For those who take the time to listen to the Mefford’s interview of DGH; the portion where she speaks with him is at minute 20:30. The section where DHG gets to explain the 2K perspective is at minute 34.
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John, thanks for that background. My experience now makes better sense (though I do get a fair amount of grief from OP’s for 2k).
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Brian, After!?? AFTER THE EVENT!??! I thought our agreement included live coverage by the News Corp. Wait til my (all about me) agent hears this.
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Maybe old life needs its very own Shameless Commerce division
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Certainly it would be excellent if DGH could somehow find an Old Life angle on Car Talk.
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…at a minimum, audio will be up after the event.
If there are no conflicts with GOP debates or the NFL we’ll be live on Murdoch, or at least CSPAN7.
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ndemana, please, I have enough coffee mugs. But a personalized terry cloth bath robe, with Old Life piping, would be appealing.
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