584: Dress Codes, Growing Fears, & Why Grace is Still Amazing with Philip Yancey
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
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🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The Senate is relaxing its dress code so senators can wear hoodies and gym shorts, but senate staffers are still required to wear suits and ties. Is it a meaningless change or the sign of wider institutional decay? A new study finds 7 out of 10 pastors say their congregations are more fearful about the world and the future. Are they really being shaped by the gospel of Christ or by the fearmongers in the media? And researchers asked religious Americans, what’s the bigger problem today—actual racism or false accusations of racism? The responses are telling. Then, author Philip Yancey is back for the 25th anniversary of his best-selling book, “What So Amazing About Grace?” He says our culture is even more divided and condemning than when he first wrote the book in the 1990s, and he examines why grace has fallen out of favor even among Christians and how to get it back.
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0:00 - Intro
1:31 - Show starts
2:05 - Theme Song
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3:41 - Taylor Swift
6:34 - Dress Codes
15:44 - Growing fear in church congregations
36:20 - White Evangelicals claim racism is overblown
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46:01 - Interview Intro
Philip Yancey
48:07 - The original version of “What’s So Amazing About Grace”
53:29 - The need for grace
1:08:12 - Why social outcasts are often drawn to Jesus
1:15:27 - End Credits
Links mentioned in news segment:
Skye’s Twitter Rant - https://twitter.com/SkyeJethani/status/1704855253156610395?s=20
Nearly 70% of churchgoers have 'a growing sense of fear': Lifeway Research
White Christians say too many see racism when it’s not there, new poll finds
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/08/29/white-christians-pew-poll-racism/
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What's So Amazing About Grace? Revised and Updated by Philip Yancey
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Holy Post. The U.S. Senate is relaxing its dress code so that senators |
| 0:05.6 | can wear hoodies and gym shorts, but Senate staffers are still required to wear suits |
| 0:10.1 | and ties. Is it a meaningless change or the sign of larger cultural and institutional decay? |
| 0:17.2 | Then a new study finds that seven out of ten pastors say their congregations are more |
| 0:21.8 | fearful about the world and the future, which begs the question, are they really being |
| 0:26.4 | shaped by the gospel of Christ or by the fear that they're seen in the media? |
| 0:31.3 | And researchers ask to religious Americans, what's the bigger problem today? Actual racism |
| 0:37.3 | or false accusations of racism? The responses are very telling. Then author Philip Yancey |
| 0:43.6 | is back for the 25th anniversary of his best-selling book, What So Amazing About Grace. He says |
| 0:49.9 | our culture is even more divided and condemning than it was when he first wrote the book |
| 0:54.2 | in the 1990s, and he examines why grace has fallen out of favor even among Christians. |
| 1:00.8 | A quick reminder that there's a brand new episode of our special sub-series Why I'm Still |
| 1:05.4 | a Christian Out This Week. It features historian and author of Jesus and John Wayne, |
| 1:10.7 | Kristen Dumay, and Holy Post Plus subscribers have brand new episodes of Christian asks |
| 1:15.6 | and getting schooled by Caitlin Chess to look forward to. You can learn more and support |
| 1:20.3 | all the great content we're producing by becoming a Holy Post Plus subscriber at HolyPost.com. |
| 1:27.3 | Here is episode 584. |
| 1:50.3 | What's the news that you like the most? Who's your favorite podcast host? If it's breakfast, |
| 2:14.3 | get your toast, it's sky and fill in the Holy Post. Sky and fill in the Holy Post. |
| 2:21.3 | I'm sometimes paid fun. |
| 2:28.3 | This episode of The Holy Post is sponsored by Faithful Counseling. And by 50 years on this |
| 2:33.5 | Earth, life has thrown me more than a few curveballs. The loss of a dream, rough spots |
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