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David French’s Top 5 Stories To Shape Your New Year

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Good Faith

News, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What can you expect from 2025?

 

From abuses of power to the health of millions, host Curtis Chang and “founding friend” David French explore five pivotal stories that will shape how tax dollars are spent, how immigration is addressed, and how governance unfolds in the coming year. The original Good Faith duo challenges listeners to remain steadfast in protecting the vulnerable and speaking the truth. Offering insights on issues impacting America and the world, they encourage reflection and action. As the new year approaches, David urges listeners to pray not necessarily for specific policy outcomes but for wisdom, the courage to oppose evil, and a resolute commitment to justice.

 

David’s Top 5:

5. January 6 pardons

4. What if RFK Jr. is confirmed?

3. What is the Republican stance on abortion?

2. Are mass deportations really coming?

1. The evolving situation in Ukraine

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang. And the Good Faith podcast is a production of Redeeming Babel, and it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world. A big way that we hear at Good Faith and Redeeming Babel have been trying to help people make sense of the world is in the realm of politics.

0:39.7

As many of you know, we have been running this big project on the after party that's trying to help

0:45.4

Christians make sense of politics in a Jesus-centered way.

0:49.3

Then in the run-up to election, we had a number of special episodes, webinars, and then after the election,

0:56.2

helping shepherd us in the aftermath of the election. And then if you've been listening to

1:01.1

Good Faith, you will notice that the last four episodes have had very little to do with politics.

1:07.0

We've been going through an Advent series on the four virtues of Advent and only making

1:12.1

very sporadic reference to the political scene. That's by design. We felt like we needed a break.

1:18.9

I certainly felt like I needed that. I've been noticing my own hunger for political news

1:25.3

dropped off a cliff after the election.

1:28.9

That laughter you hear is our guest, David French, as a preview.

1:34.3

David, was that true for you?

1:36.4

Actually, that can't be true for you.

1:38.1

That's your job.

1:39.1

I don't have that luxury, Curtis.

1:41.2

I don't have that luxury.

1:42.5

I can't sit there and go, oh, well, I'm bored of politics now, but it's not bored of me.

1:50.1

Well, I don't think I'm alone in that. I sense, I find a number of our listeners a sense of like, oh, we need to break. I needed a break. I've been noticing, you know, my own news consumption. I get two main news sources.

2:02.4

The Wall Street Journal as my sort of right-word-leaning news source and the New York Times

2:07.8

as my somewhat left-leaning source.

2:11.0

And I don't think I've opened the New York Times app since the election.

2:15.2

And I don't think...

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