A Mainline Reconquista with Pastor Jake Dell! [The Pugcast]

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Today the Pugs welcome Jake Dell onto the show. Jake is the pastor of the historic First Congregational Church of Woodbury, Connecticut (est. 1659). But he's also a man with a dream and a plan to win back to orthodox Christianity mainline congregations from liberal denominations. Join us today for a fascinating conversation concerning how this seemingly impossible task actually isn't all that quixotic. Jake's plan has potential. Listen in to see if you agree.

Project Return - Mission Brief https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Em4kSK74XFjs9vqtYmsRKDKf5kolmuW5HPLMAOxqOlU/edit?usp=sharing

Case Study: Reclaiming Historic Protestant Churches Through a Donor Intent Litigation Trust https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yP5cWzuC4UyrRANecKkjglY0rD-TeMfTLZfaXzcFLyU/edit?usp=sharing

The First Congregational Church of Woodbury, Connecticut http://www.firstchurchwoodbury.org/

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Theology Podcast. Great to have you here for this episode. I'm C.R. Wiley. I'm a pastor. I serve a church in the Pacific Northwest, right outside of Portland. Strange place. But once you get outside of the city limits, it gets pretty normal quick.
0:16.8	And so my church is actually in Battleground, Washington, which is one of the coolest places in America.
0:23.0	Anyway, I write books, and I just finished the latest book, and it's entitled St. Anthony,
0:31.3	and St. Anthony's Guide to the AI Apocalypse or Surviving the AI Apocalypse.
0:35.3	But anyway, that's enough of that.
0:36.5	So I'm going to kick it over to you, Tom.
0:37.8	And then Glenn, give us a little snippet about your adventure on the other side of the pond.
0:42.2	And then we'll kick it over to our guests for the day.
0:44.2	I'm Tom Price. I teach theology, moral theology, and philosophy, a few other things. One of the places is Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. I do some ministry work, and hopefully this summer I will finally have wrapped up one of my long-awaited writing projects. So I've been to mouth.
1:07.2	Great. We're looking forward to it. Yeah. And I'm Glenn Sunshine. I am a retired history professor, senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.
1:17.7	And I have my own ministry, every scratch ministries through which I just conducted a tour of Ireland.
1:24.9	And I am back just today, severely jet-lagged and sleep deprived. So this could be a
1:30.7	very entertaining episode. We actually traveled around the entire island of Ireland, mostly on,
1:40.8	well, basically around the perimeter. And so we were in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland both.
1:46.6	We saw a lot of sites connected with the early Celtic Saints,
1:51.8	which is what the topic of the tour was.
1:55.1	I did historical lectures on the bus,
1:57.5	and then we had tour guides or self-guided tours on the ground at a whole bunch of
2:02.7	sites around Ireland.
2:05.4	It's nice, nice.
2:06.8	So before we get to Jake, I just want to note that we are going to be in Chattanooga next week for the PCA Journal Assembly.
2:14.0	And this show is coming out on Monday, I think.
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