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Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT’S WORTH DIVIDING OVER?

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Religion, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.93.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Segment 1:



• Conservative Christianity saw a resurgence decades ago—but pride and inflated opinions fractured it.



• The MacArthur Memorial revealed surprising unity with leaders like Piper, raising big questions.



• Are we elevating secondary issues to essentials and repeating secular cancel culture?



Segment 2:



• Scott Aniol’s “Conviction and Charity” points toward a healthier future for conservative Christianity.



• Tone and tenor matter—we’ve all felt and likely contributed to the online heat.



• G3’s pivot could help the local pastor and church recalibrate.



Segment 3:



• Key question: when do you call out error, and when do you show charity?



• Biblical conviction must never fade, but secondary issues shouldn’t destroy fellowship.



• The church must grow in discernment without weaponizing it.



Segment 4:



• Theological sharpness is good—but not our identity.



• Have we been distracted from our Father’s business by endless squabbles?



• Unity in Christ must outweigh division over non-essentials.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Ritchard Radio begins in three, two, one. Now, I am not reintroducing the idea of purgatory,

0:11.2

but on the other hand, I do believe the baby was thrown out with a bathwater. With that came

0:15.7

a belief, when you die, you're instantaneously and magically made perfect. The soul of someone

0:20.5

who dies immediately goes into eternity.

0:23.8

There is no place where you make up for your sins.

0:26.1

There is no purgatory in the twinkling of an eye.

0:28.5

We shall be changed.

0:30.7

It's time for Wretched Radio with Taunt Friel.

0:34.1

Look!

0:35.0

Look!

0:35.9

The pendulum!

0:37.2

It's swinging back? This is Wretched Radio. About which pendulum do I speak?

0:45.7

It's the discernment pendulum. Let's let Time magazine take us back 20, 25 years ago. You may recall it was the headline story. There is a resurgence of conservative

0:58.4

Christianity in America. It's a force to be reckoned with conferences, movements, publishing.

1:06.5

It was a thing. And Time magazine recognized it. And we got on that roller coaster and we wrote it

1:14.2

with delight.

1:15.4

Why?

1:16.4

Because we were returning to the five solas.

1:19.8

Topical preaching was going away.

1:21.9

We were doing expository line by line preaching

1:24.7

and theology became a thing.

1:27.3

It had been watered down, not everybody of a thing. It had been watered down, not everybody, of course, but it had been watered down really for decades

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