653: Character, Christian Colleges, & Why Trump Won with Robert P. Jones
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
According to New York Times columnist, David Brooks, our society has given up on moral formation to focus instead on individual success and happiness. Can we recover a culture of shared virtue? Surprising new data shows that overall college enrollment is down, but Christian colleges and universities are growing. What’s the explanation? Then Robert P. Jones, from PRRI, is back to unpack the numbers from the presidential election. Why did more Latinos support Trump, and are Democrats learning the wrong lessons from their loss? Also this week—animals hold grudges.
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0:00 - Show Starts
3:17 - Theme Song
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5:50 - The Inauguration
8:30 - Connecting to Relief Work
12:05 - Ants’ Tiny Grudges
17:30 - Character Building Toolkit
24:28 - Morally Fragmented World
39:21 - Christian College Growth
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47:15 - Interview
48:50 - Lack of Change
57:01 - Don’t Overread
1:12:44 - Fatigue
1:17:38 - Pray for Wisdom
1:21:40 - End Credits
Links Mentioned in News Segment:
World Relief:
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Christian Colleges Continue to See Enrollment Growth:
Biologists Antagonised Ants:
Other resources:
The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones: https://a.co/d/5ZoIHOp
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones: https://a.co/d/0K5cI5W
Robert P. Jones’ Substack: www.whitetoolong.net
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Holy Post. According to New York Times columnist David Brooks, our society has given up on moral formation to focus instead on individual success and happiness. Can we recover a culture of shared virtue? |
| 0:15.1 | Surprising data shows that overall college enrollment is down, but Christian colleges and universities are growing. |
| 0:22.3 | What's the explanation? Then Robert P. Jones from P. RRI is back to unpack the numbers |
| 0:28.4 | from the presidential election. Why did more Latinos support Trump and are Democrats learning |
| 0:33.8 | the wrong lesson from their loss? Also this week, animals hold grudges. |
| 0:39.7 | We have more exclusive content this week for Holy Post Plus subscribers, including a new |
| 0:44.3 | episode of Getting Schooled by Caitlin Chess, where we talk about the different views |
| 0:48.4 | of communion. |
| 0:49.5 | What's actually going on with the bread and the wine? |
| 0:52.6 | Of course, there's much more to Holy Post |
| 0:54.7 | Plus for you to engage, including the Skypod, bonus interviews, the book club, live streams, |
| 1:00.1 | and merch. And that's just the start. We have big plans for Holy Post Plus this year with an |
| 1:05.5 | avalanche of new content, audio, video, written stuff, and even events. In fact, the bulk of what Holy Post |
| 1:12.1 | media produces is now available for Holy Post subscribers only. So check it out and become part of |
| 1:18.7 | the Holy Post plus community at holypost.com. Here is episode 653. Hey there, welcome back to the |
| 1:26.7 | Holy Post podcast. I'm Phil Fisher. I am not in the studio. We were in the |
| 1:31.2 | studio for last week's episode. But then Caitlin had to fly away and go back to Duke, even though we said, |
| 1:38.9 | please don't go. Please don't go. We eat you up. We love you. So that's a quote from where the |
| 1:46.2 | wild things are. I'm sure you're feeling familiar with classic children's literature. |
| 1:50.4 | Yes. Okay, good. Good. We have a point of cultural commonality. That is fantastic. |
| 1:57.2 | I am here with I in the sky, Sky Jitani. Hi, Sky. Hello. Hi. You should do, |
| 2:05.2 | you should be doing like traffic reports from a helicopter and you could be Sky in the Sky. |
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