Welcome once again to the conversations that our podcast I I'm John Harris. We're going to talk about this book today,

Republicrats, confessions of a liberal conservative by Carl Truman. I think if he wrote

it today it would be super controversial probably and he would have a lot of attention

given to this particular book, but when he wrote it in 2010, that was not the case.

And so this is going to be part of a series I'm doing and it's not

sequential. It's not going to be like there's another installment tomorrow and next

week but during the course of the year I'm going to talk about some other

figures. Tim Keller being one that I've talked about

before, but we'll talk about maybe one of his books, Generous Justice,

perhaps, we'll just go through it and give you some quotes and talk about it.

We might talk about Stephen Nichols' book made in America I'm not sure yet but

there was there was a string of books that came out that when they came out in the early

2000s up until about 2015 or so they weren't that controversial because it just wasn't a fight in

evangelicalism like it is today. The political fight that's going on of course the

underpinning this is a theological

fight really it's not ultimately political but but that's the form I would say

that it's been taking and that's from the outside optics and the interests that are involved from

the world's perspective there they tend to be more political interest and of

course with everything that's happened politically especially within the last two or three years,

this fight with the evangelicalism has really ramped up. And so books like this, which once, well today would be blamed perhaps for the drift that's happening in

evangelicalism and they would be identified as Trojan horses at the time that

they were written they were not identified in fact Michael

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