Published July 28, 2025
It is a day that ends in “y,” so that means the New York Times’ David French, the supposedly conservative Christian columnist for the paper of record, has done what he has done for the last several years, and that is to use his national platform to smear evangelicals.
While his columns have become redundant in their criticisms at this point, he occasionally overreaches in a way that requires pushback. Last week, French penned a newsletter where he took evangelicals to task for engaging in what he calls a Christianized “cancel culture.” In his view, the criticism that Chip and Joanna Gaines received from their fellow evangelicals for including a homosexual couple in their new television series is evidence that a brittle fundamentalism defines the spirit of American evangelicalism.
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Andrew T. Walker, Ph.D., is a Fellow in the Evangelicals and Civic Life Program at The Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is also the Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and the founding Managing Editor of WORLD Opinions. He co-hosts The Bully Pulpit, a weekly podcast exploring faith, culture, and politics from a conservative Christian perspective.
