Brian Zahnd – Christians in the Age of Trump [Revisited] (N333)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Back in 2019, Tim Nash and David Blower sat down with Brian Zahnd to explore the toxic entanglement between Church and Empire, and the resulting religion Zahnd calls "Americanism." From rethinking how we read Scripture to the deeply political implications of the cross, Zahnd offers a vision of living as citizens of God’s kindom amidst worldly empires. With Donald Trump, whom Zahnd identified as emblematic of "Americanism," once again elected President, we felt this conversation deserved to be revisited.
Following the interview, a 2024 Tim Nash and Nick Thorley share their thoughts and feelings about the re-election of Trump, and where they are seeing signs of hope.
Interview starts at 10m 15s
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome back to Nomad Revisited. I'm Tim Nash, and this is my mate and co-host. It's John Nicholas Thawley. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello there. For the casual listener, they might have been a little bit confused by that intro, might know, because this is me and Nick's supplementary podcast, Nomad Revisited. |
| 0:49.7 | But what are we doing on the main feed, Tim? |
| 0:52.4 | Well, Nick, once a year, we put a revisited on the main feed, don't we? |
| 0:56.1 | But we usually do it in January. |
| 0:58.6 | But with recent events in America, it reminded me of an old Brian Zarned interview |
| 1:03.3 | where we talked about the coming together of American evangelicalism and politics. |
| 1:08.5 | He mentions Donald Trump, doesn't he, as an example. |
| 1:11.9 | So I thought, let's get that out on the main feed. Quick Smart. Let's do it. People want to hear us talking |
| 1:16.5 | about American politics, don't they? That's exactly what they want. Yeah. People are just |
| 1:20.5 | thinking, when a Nomad going to talk about this stuff? I mean, yeah, I've heard all this political |
| 1:24.7 | commentary and analysis, but what a Nick and Tim think. Yeah, I've listened to Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart for 20 hours on YouTube. |
| 1:32.4 | But there was something missing. |
| 1:33.7 | There really was. |
| 1:34.5 | Tim and Nick's opinion. |
| 1:35.8 | We don't want to know what Anthony Scaramucci thinks anymore. |
| 1:39.7 | The mooch. |
| 1:40.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.7 | It's a great name, and it really is. |
| 1:42.4 | He's got a great voice as well, hasn't it? |
| 1:43.8 | So good. |
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