76. Larry Boy and the Conspiracy Weed// with Jared Stacy

The New Evangelicals Podcast

Tim Whitaker

News, Religion & Spirituality, Politics, Christianity

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Jared Stacy, former pastor and current researcher of conspiracy theories and how they intersect with Evangelicalism, sits down with Tim to discuss his research. Jared explains his background in Southern Evangelical spaces and his eventual move from pastoral work to getting a PhD in conspiracy theories. Tim and Jared discuss the three ways a conspiracy theory is defined. They also discuss how there is overlap between Qnon conspiracy theories and Evangelical theology. Lastly, Tim and Jared discuss how to approach people who believe in conspiracy theories. Sign up for Theology Beer Camp (Promo Code: TNE) Get mad with Mad Priest Coffee (Promo Code: TNE20) Follow us on Instagram: @thenewevangelicals Support Our Work Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Hey, what is up everyone?
0:15.0	Welcome back to another episode of the new Evangelicals Podcast.
0:21.0	I am your host Tim.
0:22.0	If this is your first time listening or watching thank you and welcome to the show
0:27.2	We do a lot of things as new evangelicals were on Instagram on Tik-talk. We have a Facebook community and we love to
0:33.6	podcast so today I'm bringing you a fresh episode. I have on this week's
0:38.6	episode, Jared Stacy. Jared Spacey is a former pastor and current researcher of conspiracy theories and how they intersect with evangelicalism.
0:49.0	This is a very important episode to listen to my friends because Jared used to be an
0:54.8	evangelical pastor. His background is in the Southern Evangelical Baptist Convention.
0:59.5	He eventually moved out of that as he discovered that conspiracy theories are a real problem in
1:06.0	evangelical spaces. So we talked about what is a conspiracy theory? How does it work?
1:11.2	What is Cuban on, which is a big deal in a lot of Christian nationalist
1:15.6	spaces? So this episode is very important. I think you're going to enjoy it. It's super
1:19.6	informative, informative. So buckle up. Here we go. That being said as always I want to say two things. Number one, this
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