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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

And I'm Woe.

So today we're going to be talking about Christian nationalism.

This is a subject that has been hot and heavy in the news very recently.

It has been, the number of books have been published. There's a lot of

chatter online about it. It's a subject that you and I, Corey, have been talking about for a number of years.

It's something we've both written about, to some extent, in the past. And it's, frankly, we know

more about it than a lot of people, just because we've been thinking about it for a long time.

And so this is well-trodden ground for us.

We're not going to – this will be more of a conversational episode, hopefully, than the last couple,

just because we can freewheel this, and we're going to do a good job because this is our home turf.

And the reason is because it is so vitally important to

recognize that a Christian nation is what God desires. Christian nationalism is what God

expects from us. And we're going to talk at some length initially about the definitions of both

nation, as in nationalism, and then Christian, because those are the reflections of what's commonly

called the two kingdoms in theology, the kingdom of the left hand of God and the kingdom of the

right hand of God, with the left hand being political and the right

hand being spiritual or satirological, basically church and state, or state and church.

The reason that this is something that, there are a number of historical reasons why people

sort of go off the rails when they tackle these things. But first we're going to

talk about why the words themselves, particularly the word nation and nationalist, have been

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