As a conservative and not a libertarian, I suppose I ought to make clear the distinction for those who may not know the difference between the two. A Conservative sees individual liberties and responsibilities as proceeding from a transcendent source, and consequently accountable to transcendent principles. A libertarian is a conservative divorced from or bereft of transcendent principles. In many cases their positions will appear to be identical, but they are not as they are arrived at on the basis of entirely differing premises.

I am an evangelical Christian, though not a Fundamentalist, and yes, there is a difference. You'll note I capitalized the latter term and not the former. In its classical sense an evangelical is a Christian who acknowledges the inerrancy and authority of Scripture for all matters of faith and practice, and who affirms the necessity of the new birth as the sine qua non of true Christianity. The latter term when uncapitalized is synonymous with the first, as used for example in J.I. Packer's excellent little book, Fundamentalism and the Word of God. When capitalized, however (at least as I use it) the term denotes a subset of evangelicals who may be anti-intellectual, anti-confessional, and obscurantist. For a fuller discussion may I commend to the reader Dr. Mark Noll's excellent look at the larger overarching issues in his 1995 book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind.

I'm in early middle age, and live in Tennessee with my wife and three children.