Hey, I'm Natasha Crane, and I'm Elisa Childers.

Welcome to Unshaken Faith, where we equip you to live your Christian faith

boldly in a chaotic culture. There's a new small group curriculum for churches available and you're probably going to hear a lot about it this year because it's both

very timely and it's being produced and promoted by some big Christian names.

It's called the afterparty and according to its creators it's designed to

counter the quote- unquote dangerous trend of

evangelicals having their political identity formed by partisan forces, not by true biblical

faith. The curriculum was developed by David French, who's a New York Times columnist,

Russell Moore, the editor-in-chief of Christianity today, and Curtis Chang.

Now, fewer people are familiar with Chang than with French and more, but for context, one of his most notable

projects was called Christians and the Vaccine. Through which he led a national effort to convince

COVID vaccine-resistant evangelicals that their quote anxiety, distrust of institutions, and political

polarization was threatening the vaccine's potential for healing our world.

Now, longtime listeners to our podcast may remember that we did an episode on our concerns

about the after party curriculum last March when it first was announced.

The reason we're talking about our concerns again today is that it's now been released and

it's getting high- profile promotion with churches and

pastors nationwide. In fact they're making it available for three for free through the

2024 election. Today we're going to talk about some things that you should be aware of before your church

considers rolling this out. Because we have a lot to say today we're going to skip our normal

tips of the week, but we do have a really exciting announcement before we dig in.

Yes, and this is a big announcement because for the first time we are letting you know

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