Spelade
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David and Curtis talk to Tish Harrison Warren, an author, Anglican priest, and writer for The New York Times. Their conversation about prayer gets very real, as they first talk about prayer in wartime. Then they move back to the American cultural struggles, and discuss the disturbing tendency to compare peace to war and the toxic effect on our lives and hearts.
Show Notes:
-Sign up for Tish Harrison Warren’s newsletter
-And David’s French Press
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David and Curtis talk to Dr. Derwin Gray about his career path from college football to the NFL to seminary and, ultimately, to the founder and pastor of Transformation church, a multi-ethnic congregation in South Carolina. Dr. Gray talks about his new book, How to Heal Our Racial Divide and David and Curtis ask him about political and racial tensions in church, critical race theory, and how he proposes reaching a church that's polarized on political and racial grounds.
Show Notes:
-How to Heal Our Racial Divide by Derwin Gray
-Desert News: “Leaning on Jesus to heal America’s racial divide”
-Follow Derwin Gray on Twitter
-RedeemingBabel.org 20% discount for Good Faith listeners: GoodFaith20
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David and Curtis are excited to welcome the inaugural guest of the Good Faith podcast, Mike Cosper. Mike is the Director of Podcasting for Christianity Today and is most well known as the producer and host of The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. Join David, Curtis and Mike as they discuss some of the lessons Mike took away from the process of diving deep into such a painful story. As you will see, the lessons are sometimes hard (just like the gospel itself), but they are also surprisingly hopeful (just like the gospel itself).
Show Notes:
-The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill
-RedeemingBabel.org 20% discount for Good Faith listeners: GoodFaith20
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Why are so many pastors considering leaving the ministry? Is it the pandemic? Is it the political and racial polarization? Is it something else? Join David and Curtis as they delve into the growing crisis of pastoral burnout, including a very personal story from Curtis about his own journey to becoming a “former senior pastor”.
Show Notes:
-Barna Group - 38% of U.S. Pastors Have Thought About Quitting Full-Time Ministry in the Past Year
-Michelle Boorstein - The first Christmas as a layperson: Burned out by the pandemic, many clergy quit in the past year
-Kate Shellnutt - The Pastors Aren’t All Right: 38% Consider Leaving Ministry
-Barna Group - The Mental & Emotional Health of Pastors and Their Congregants Amid COVID-19
-Wendy Wang and Alysse Elhage - Here’s Who Stopped Going to Church During the Pandemic
-The French Press - The Crisis of Christian Celebrity
-Cass Sunstein - The Law of Group Polarization
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In a follow up to last week’s Deconstructing Faith episode, David French and Curtis Chang dive into the sometimes murky and contradictory political views of Christians. All too frequently, the political stances we think are biblical are actually just cultural.
Why are most Christians’ political stances so predictable? For example, why do many believers who care about abortion not care as much about systemic racism? Or vice versa?
Tune into today’s episode as Curtis and David tackle the fascinating interaction between politics, culture, and the Bible… and end with a surprising take on abortion and systemic racism.
Show Notes:
-More in Common - The Hidden Tribes of America
-Paul D. Miller - The Role of Social Science in ‘Deconstructing’ White Evangelicalism
-Kristen du Mez - Jesus and John Wayne
-Jemar Tisby - The Color of Compromise
-George McKenna - On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position (circa 1995, but still relevant)
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Conflict feels like it’s everywhere these days. Church communities, old friendships and even families are being pulled apart by tensions over politics, the pandemic, race and more. When should we stay in a church or relationship? When should we perhaps leave? Is there a biblical model to navigate these decisions and what comes in the aftermath? Join David and Curtis to discuss how we as Christians should approach these perplexing questions.
Show Notes:
-The Russell Moore Show: Beth Moore Didn’t Expect Us to Be Us
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What exactly is a Christian nation? Is America becoming post-Christian? Is it easier or harder to be a Christian in America today than it was 30 years ago? What about 70 years ago? Join David French and Curtis Chang to think through these important questions and to consider some perhaps quite surprising answers.
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David French and Curtis Chang discuss the hot topic of “deconstruction,” a term with multiple meanings, from reevaluation of specific faith related issues to a deeper questioning of Christian faith itself. For many the discussion around deconstruction stems from some sense of pain or hurt caused by the church. David and Curtis (and producer Kris) explore the complex and deeply personal dimensions of this process, including practical suggestions for listeners.
Show Notes:
-The French Press: Under Attack from Fundamentalist Pirates, Evangelical Baptists Refused to Give Up the Ship
-Karen Swallow Prior: “With this much rot, there’s no choice but to deconstruct”
-The French Press: John Wayne, Jesus, and the Struggle to Define the Christian Man
-The French Press: America Is in the Grips of a Fundamentalist Revival
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David French and his theological wingman Curtis Chang dive into the term “evangelical”, defining it historically and discussing how it fits in the current American context. Is it really a set of religious beliefs, a set of cultural beliefs, or a set of political beliefs? How does evangelicalism compare with fundamentalism? Is evangelical a term worth salvaging for Christians, or has it become too closely tied to a political movement to retain any spiritual relevance?
Show Notes:
-The French Press: “Did Donald Trump Make the Church Great Again?”
-Pew Research Center: “More White Americans adopted than shed evangelical label during Trump presidency, especially his supporters”
-National Association of Evangelicals: “What is an Evangelical?” (including the Bebbington Quadrilateral)
-Barna: “Survey Explores Who Qualifies As an Evangelical” (including the 9-point Evangelical)
-Ryan Burge: “For White Evangelical Republicans, Approval of Trump is About Immigration more than Abortion”
-Ryan Burge: “Why ‘Evangelical’ is becoming another word for ‘Republican’”
-The French Press: “The American Crisis of Selective Empathy”
