David Brooks Wants to Save Evangelicalism

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Russell Moore

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🗓️ 17 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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“Are the times we’re living in really as crazy as they seem?” This is the first question that Russell Moore has for David Brooks, a New York Times op-ed columnist, author, and commentator. Brooks’s recent column “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself” details some of the unsettling, disheartening events within evangelicalism over the past few years and highlights several individuals who are trying to forge a different path. On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, Brooks and Moore discuss many types of people that “evangelical” can describe. They talk about the difficulties of resisting the climate of the times. And they talk about what politics are meant to do and be. “The Russell Moore Show” is a production of Christianity Today Chief Creative Officer: Erik Petrik Executive Producer and Host: Russell Moore Director of Podcasts: Mike Cosper Production Assistance: CoreMedia Coordinator: Beth Grabenkort Producer and Audio Mixing: Kevin Duthu Associate Producer: Abby Perry Theme Song: “Dusty Delta Day” by Lennon Hutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.1	And my guest today is David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, author of multiple books.
1:23.6	You're all familiar with David Brooks.
1:25.8	And he has a major article this past week
1:30.2	in the New York Times on the evangelical dissenters who are seeking to save
1:35.0	evangelicalism from itself. So David and I have had a lot of conversations
1:40.0	leading up to that piece but I wanted us to talk about it today. So David
1:45.1	thanks for being with us today. Oh it's pleasure with you Russell. Before
1:49.2	we talk specifically about evangelicalism I'd like to sort of telescope a little bit and ask
1:56.8	the question that's on my mind it seems all the time right now, which is to say, are the Times really as crazy as, by the Times I don't mean
2:07.0	the New York Times, I mean the Times we're living in, are they really as crazy as they seem,
2:12.0	or is this just life?
2:14.4	We're just sort of seeing what life is like and it's always been this way.
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