Christianity & Politics: Social Conservatism (Or Christless Conservatism?) ft. Jeff Durbin [The Ezra Institute Podcast for Cultural Reformation]
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Pastor Nate Wright and Dr. Michael Thiessen are joined by Pastor & Ezra Fellow for Evangelism & Apologetics Jeff Durbin of Apologia Church & Studios and End Abortion Now to discuss the upcoming American election, Social Conservatism, and the need to root conservative principles in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Episode Resources: Apologia Church: ; Apologia Studios; End Abortion Now: https://endabortionnow.com/; ReformCon '25: https://reformcon.org/.
Think Christianly about politics with the help of Dr. Boot’s latest book “Ruler of Kings”: https://ezrapress.ca/products/ruler-of-kings-toward-a-christian-vision-of-government;
CHAPTERS:
00:00 Opening
00:27 Intro
00:47 Welcome
01:28 Homelife & Adoption
05:51 Conversation Set-up
07:31 How Jeff is Thinking About the Upcoming Election
14:57 Social Conservatism is NOT Enough
16:33 Christless Conservatism CANNOT Save Us
23:21 How Can an Abolitionist Vote for Trump?
38:33 What are Christians To Do When the Conservative Foundations are Destroyed? GO LOCAL!
47:30 "We've Got a Lot of [Exciting] Work Ahead of Us!"
48:43 God's Law Word at the Heart of All of Society
49:13 Thinking Christianly & Other Upcoming Conferences
51:47 Conclusion
52:10 Outro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the podcast for Cultural Reformation. I'm Nate Wright, the Canadian Executive Director of the Ezra Institute, joined by my colleague Dr Michael Tieson and joined by Pastor Jeff Durbin today to talk about social conservatism leading up to the election. Oh, And the Okay, well, welcome back to the podcast for Cultural Reformation. I'm joined as often I am by Dr Michael Tieson and we have a special guest fellow of |
| 0:58.9 | the Ezra Institute, pastor of Apology at Church. Many of our listeners probably know him from his work at End |
| 1:05.0 | Abortion Now and Apologya Studios, but welcome Jeff, welcome to the show. |
| 1:09.4 | It's great to be with you guys. |
| 1:11.6 | Always great to have you with us. Pastor Jeff often helps out with the |
| 1:15.8 | World View Youth Academy and some of our in-person training programs, although |
| 1:19.9 | he's a little bit busier now with all the wonderful work he's doing legislatively to end abortion |
| 1:26.1 | and also with his own twins at home. So Jeff, how's home life? |
| 1:31.2 | Insane. |
| 1:34.0 | Hope. |
| 1:35.0 | The last year has been just the most amazing and blessed but also challenging your of our lives. |
| 1:43.2 | I have four biological children, now three adopted children, and the reason I say it like that |
| 1:50.0 | is my four biological children are grown out of the house married have kids except for |
| 1:54.8 | one 16 year old so they basically manage themselves and do their own thing and now |
| 1:59.2 | God has given me Durban 2.0 family I have a four year old now twin one year olds so it's been |
| 2:05.2 | interesting it definitely hits it hits different in your 40s. For sure we we just |
| 2:10.5 | had a newborn about this time last year and I just turned 40 this year and that's what people always I kept asking me how |
| 2:17.1 | how is it being back in the diaper stage and everything and I just said it's a lot easier in your 30s than in your 40s. |
| 2:23.0 | Yeah, yeah, for sure. |
| 2:25.0 | How are you doing Michael? |
| 2:27.0 | Yeah, no, I'm excited to be alive. |
| 2:30.0 | I'm excited to be having this conversation. |
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