Ep 930 | Why 2014 Was America’s Last Good Year | Guest: Aaron Renn

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today we're joined by Aaron Renn, co-founder and senior fellow at American Reformer, to discuss his book, “Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture,” and how Christians can respond to the ever-increasing negative view of Christians in society. We discuss how Christianity was viewed in America's history and how the 1960s saw Christian moral norms begin to be called into question. Aaron breaks these moral norms down into three phases: the Positive World, Neutral World, and Negative World. We explain what the tipping point was between the positive and neutral views of Christianity, from 1950s Christian norms being held in honor to the 1980s "health and wealth" movement. Then, what changed in 2014, and what brought about the overall negative view of Christianity in American society? We explain how Republican candidates' changing views on gay marriage and race issues show us what social shifts have occurred. We also talk about the modern evangelical response to Donald Trump and what cultural/nominal Christianity has done to Christian culture and the act of making disciples. --- Timecodes: (01:02) Introduction to Aaron (03:01) Anti-Christian culture (09:03) Positive to Neutral (15:00) 1950s Christian culture (20:37) Boomers & health & wealth movement (26:59) What changed in 2014? (38:42) Evangelical response to Trump (51:40) Nominal Christianity (57:10) Public schools --- Today's Sponsors: CrowdHealth — get your first 6 months for just $99/month. Use promo code 'ALLIE' when you sign up at JoinCrowdHealth.com. Carly Jean Los Angeles — use promo code RELATABLE25 for $25 off an order of $125 or more, or RELATABLE50 for $50 off an order of $200 or more at CarlyJeanLosAngeles.com! Birch Gold — protect your future with gold. Text 'ALLIE' to 989898 for a free, zero obligation info kit on diversifying and protecting your savings with gold. Patriot Mobile — go to PatriotMobile.com/ALLIE or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code 'FRIDAY76' to get a free smart phone with activation! --- Links: First Things: "THE THREE WORLDS OF EVANGELICALISM" https://www.firstthings.com/article/2022/02/the-three-worlds-of-evangelicalism --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 920 | Russell Moore, David French & the Fake Threat of Christian Nationalism | Guest: John Cooper https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-920-russell-moore-david-french-the-fake-threat/id1359249098?i=1000638231068 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, we are here America. We are in a post-Christian country. We actually have been for a few years now, but what is it going to look like as the influence of Christianity wanes.
0:13.8	Is this maybe possibly a positive thing or is it completely negative?
0:19.0	How do we navigate it?
0:20.0	How do we push back against it?
0:21.2	How in the world did we get here and where are we going from here that is what we are
0:26.0	discussing today with author Aaron Rin we're going to discuss the subject of
0:30.3	his book living in a negative world, a world that is opposed to Christianity and
0:38.4	Christian values. What do we do with that as Christians? A very fascinating
0:42.4	conversation that I know you guys are
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0:50.4	dot com code alley Goodranches.com, code Ali. Aaron, thanks so much for joining us.
1:00.0	If you could tell everyone who may not know who you are and what you do.
1:07.0	Right, well I am a journalist and consultant who writes today primarily about the future of the evangelical church with an emphasis
1:16.1	on men's issues, but really the future of the evangelical church.
1:22.1	Before this I was a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute in New York.
1:27.3	I worked a lot on urban policy and before that I was a corporate consultant with
1:31.1	Accenture for many years. So I'm sort of a consultant diagnosing what's going on
1:36.2	in the evangelical church.
1:37.5	And today I'm a senior fellow at American Reformer,
1:39.9	which is a Protestant nonprofit.
1:42.1	Okay, and tell me what you mean by men's issues.
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