Talk show host Hugh Hewitt, in a wide-ranging interview with Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Dr. Albert Mohler, probed Mohler on the views of young evangelicals. I thought Mohler's response to one of Hewitt's questions disturbing and worth noting:
Hewitt: Okay, last couple of questions. Do they care about the war? I mean, you’re just back from Turkey, where creeping Islamization is happening, and not so subtle, that it’s becoming much more fundamentalist in its orientation. Does Christians, do Christians within America have any general sense of alarm about the way the world is going?
Mohler: I think they have an enormous blind spot there, Hugh. I think this is one of the greatest issues of Evangelical ignorance. Evangelicals simply do not work hard at understanding the world, and I think the worldwide challenge of Islam is the greatest challenge before us, but most Evangelicals are just blissfully unaware of that challenge. If they went elsewhere in the world, they’d have to wake up to it fast.
In the next paragraph Mohler says "This is a generation that reads a lot, absorbs a lot, thinks a lot. . ." Apparently young evangelicals are awake to issues within American culture, but not much beyond these shores.