A Summit to Defend Democracy, Mark Robinson, and a Footnotes Crossover

Pass The Mic

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Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Christians in the United States and around the world have seen their faith in Jesus Christ distorted and leveraged in defense of authoritarian leaders who seek to erode freedoms essential to a thriving democracy. Some Christians enthusiastically praise dictatorial leaders and regimes. This fall, Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice hosted a summit of interfaith leaders with the intention of countering these disturbing trends. The Summit took place on September 19-20 at the new McCourt School of Public Policy building on Georgetown’s Capitol Campus. The summit included the unveiling of a new statement presenting a theologically centered Christian defense of Democracy, sessions on the themes of religion and democracy and devoted to strategizing about how to maintain the integrity of our faith traditions and our tradition of democratic governance. We met in a moment of crisis. Yet we did so as people of God animated by faith, hope, and love. It is in this spirit that we reaffirm Christian support for democracy and invite all Christians and people of moral conscience to do the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic.
0:09.2	Hey folks, welcome to a very special episode of Footnotes. It's our first
0:16.4	crossover episode of Footnotes and Pass the Mike. Why you ask? Well of course
0:22.0	there's a very strategic reason of course.
0:25.1	You got me. Full disclosure. Tyler Burns is supposed to be here. He had some traveling
0:29.5	issues and so I am on the mic solo, but I'm so excited. I wish I could really just tell you how
0:36.1	excited I am because it's been such a long time since we went old school on footnotes.
0:41.6	If you've been keeping up with the footnotes podcast feed, you've seen a bunch of fantastic
0:46.5	interviews with really smart authors with incredible things to say, and so go back and check those out for sure but the way I started footnotes was as
0:55.1	essentially a rundown of current events related to race and religion so we're going to
1:00.5	go back to that formula and And in this episode, I tackle some recent events,
1:05.7	including the Test of Faith, a summit on faith
1:09.4	and democracy, which I attended.
1:11.4	I also talk about the absolute debacle that is Mark Robinson the
1:16.3	gubernatorial candidate for governor, Republican in North Carolina and I talked about the latest data on religion and race and
1:26.4	affiliation from the Public Research Institute. So we are going to talk about
1:31.0	all those topics and more but first when we go old school on
1:35.0	footnotes my favorite part of each episode is what I'm about to do now I read
1:40.4	your reviews there's over 400 reviews on footnotes right now
1:45.5	and about footnotes.
1:46.4	Thank you so much for those of you who have contributed.
1:48.7	The good, the bad, the ugly, keep them coming.
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