#151 Should Christians get involved with politics? with Os Guinness
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
4.9 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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In the second video of our 2 part series on politics, Os Guinness talks about how having a biblical worldview should make Christians actively engaged in politics.
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| 0:00.0 | The tragedy of human history is that slavery is almost the norm. |
| 0:05.5 | Hardly any cultures don't have it. |
| 0:08.3 | What's the novelty, the radical novelty, is abolition. |
| 0:13.1 | And who brought that in? |
| 0:14.5 | The Quakers and the Evangelicals. |
| 0:16.9 | The Church of Jesus. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome to the Elisa Childar's podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs |
| 0:39.2 | of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, |
| 0:45.1 | and truth. |
| 0:46.1 | This is a two-part series on politics. |
| 0:48.7 | Last week, we talked with Dr. Jeff Myers of some |
| 0:51.5 | ministries about how Christians can think |
| 0:54.1 | theologically about politics and this week. |
| 0:57.4 | We are joined by author and social critic, |
| 1:00.0 | Oz Guinness. |
| 1:01.0 | Oz is the great, great, great grandson of Arthur Guinness, |
| 1:05.6 | the famous Dublin Brewer and was born in China during World War II, |
| 1:10.3 | where his parents were medical missionaries. |
| 1:12.6 | And he was a witness to the climax of the Chinese Revolution |
| 1:16.0 | in 1949 and was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951, |
| 1:20.7 | returning to Europe where he was educated in England, |
| 1:24.0 | ultimately getting his doctor of philosophy in the social sciences |
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