I do not have much by way of an informed opinion of the New Evangelicals, but I will say that Aaron Renn's essay The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism helped me understand the TGC crowd much more—a crowd I used to be pretty influenced by, and a crowd I still have close contact with via Crossway. There are some people I respect who are in their orbit but as a whole, I am not a fan of the org or many of their takes. In this respect I am a bit of an outlier at Crossway.
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TGC fell a while ago and they just pump out terrible takes. The new evangelical thing never heard of.
But grouping Dr. MacArthur and king clown Brian Houston in the same sentence like that is an absolute crime.
I read and interacted with TNE on Twitter for a short while before exiting X. Think: thoroughly PoMo/Wokified TGC and you'd be close, IMO.
I will check out that article on your recommendation, however. I became a "Calvinist" along with the YRR crowd in about 2002 but quickly found my way, by God's grace, to Horton et al., Witsius, Turretin, Van Til, Vos, Kline, VanDrunen, Machen, etc.
Oh, and I shouldn't leave out the gents at Reformed Forum, and R. Scott Clark.
Yes that's the impression I got having come across their content on occasion. I usually ignore/laugh at such corners of Evangelicalism and keep building.
Would enjoy reading your thoughts on the article if you care to circle back.
For reference:
[THE THREE WORLDS OF EVANGELICALISM](https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/02/the-three-worlds-of-evangelicalism)
by Aaron M. Renn
February 2022