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. Recently I had the privilege of speaking at the biblical worldview conference at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas and by the way

Natasha will be speaking there next year so definitely check that out but on Sunday

night I participated in a panel discussion alongside

Jeremiah Johnston, Lee Strobel, and Ali Beth Stucky.

We were each asked to state what we are most concerned about in the

evangelical church right now.

And when it was aly's turn, she said something that has really

stuck with me. She stated that her concern is the propensity of Christians to

compartmentalize their worldview. In other words, the tendency is to put our theology in one compartment, our

ethics in another compartment, and our politics, and yet another one.

She was clear that theology comes first. Our politics and ethics are going to flow downstream from that

theology, but we can't separate them completely and still maintained a fully

orbed biblical worldview. Well, this was kind of a light bulb moment for me because she put into language what I've been feeling and seeing, but haven't quite been able to articulate.

And it makes so much sense of what we have seen regarding tropes and claims like just preach the gospel and the

accusation of Christian nationalism and the politically charged love

your neighbor narrative that was used to silence conservative Christians

when they questioned certain COVID protocols and

challenged the critical race theory that was infiltrating the church a few years ago.

So I saw a social media post from a local and pretty famous pastor this week that brought it all together for me.

So today we're going to talk about Big Eva, political manipulation, and give a general,

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