I'm Warren Smith and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Dr. Jeffrey

Prishiers.

He's the author of a new book called American Crisis, Cultural Marxism and the Culture

War, a Christian response.

The early church, if you wanted to describe it or characterize it as moderately socialistic

to use modern terminology, the early church really practiced voluntary socialism or voluntary

communalism out of a sincere love for others, which is totally different of course from

secular political socialism, which is government mandated.

It's always invariably coercive and involuntary.

Jeffrey Prishiers took an interesting path to become one of the most quietly influential

thinkers in evangelicalism today.

He was raised in the church, conservative Baptist church, and he never completely left

the faith of his youth, but he did have sojourns in what today we sometimes call the religious

left or progressive Christianity.

We'll talk about that in our conversation today.

Jeffrey also spent time in the music industry, working for both secular and Christian record

labels in the early days of the Jesus music era.

His experiences there have informed his approach to apologetics and his strategy at the

Ariapicus Forum, which is a study center he leads.

It combines apologetics with history, art, and contemporary cultural issues.

Jeffrey Prishiers' new book is called American Crisis, Cultural Marxism and the Cultural

War, a Christian response.

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