Your blithe review of Michael Lindsay’s Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) is rather disturbing in its disregard of the nature of power exercised by American Evangelicals as of late (“The Bond between God and Power,” August 25, 2007). If the erstwhile “backwoods bigots” are no longer poor, and if theirs was once a “religion of the dispossessed,” than they are that much more dangerous now that they are wealthy and powerful. Born-again Christians like George Bush are a grave danger to the world, which you fail to even suggest in passing. Christian fundamentalists at the American helm are not only wealthy and powerful nowadays, but they are also armed to the teeth. As well as ready to use those arms at the slightest pretext offered them. If all this is missing in Lindsay’s book, it certainly should not be pushed under the rug in your review. Whence its disturbing tinge.