D. Michael Lindsay
| D. Michael Lindsay | |
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| President of Gordon College | |
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Assumed office 2011 |
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| Preceded by | R. Judson Carlberg |
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| Born |
16 November 1971 Jackson, Mississippi |
| Residence | Wenham, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater |
Baylor University Princeton Theological Seminary Oxford University Princeton University |
| Profession | Sociologist, university president |
David Michael Lindsay (born 16 November 1971) is an American scholar in sociology and the current president of Gordon College, a private, nondenominational Christian liberal arts college on Boston's North Shore. Prior to arriving at Gordon, Lindsay was on faculty for five years at Rice University and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. He is known as a scholar in the study of leadership, elites, evangelicalism, and higher education.
Michael Lindsay was born in Jackson, Mississippi as an only child, and he graduated from Jackson Preparatory School in Jackson in 1990 as a National Merit Scholar, where his mother, Susan Lindsay, is now the head of school. Along with his mother, Lindsay converted from Catholicism to Southern Baptist Evangelicalism as a child. His father, Ken Lindsay, was the president of the PGA from 1997 to 1998 and was one of the officials in golf before his retirement in 2008.
Lindsay's first research projects focused on evangelicals in leadership positions in America, which formed the basis for his dissertation, Faith in the Corridors of Power. The dissertation drew upon over 350 interviews with evangelical leaders in business, government, cultural institutions, and religion. In 2007, the dissertation was published by Oxford University Press as Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite.Faith in the Halls of Power met with mostly positive critical reviews. It was listed in Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of 2007." However, Alan Wolfe of the New York Times criticized the work by saying that "too much of the book is uncritical."The Economist, by contrast, called it "an impressive and admirably fair-minded book: anybody who wants to understand the nexus between God and power in modern America should start here."Christianity Today gave it first place among the Christianity and Culture category in their annual book awards.
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