Episode 499: The End of Racial Reconciliation & Rescuing Evangelicalism with David Brooks

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Phil Vischer

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Some Southern Baptists say if Voddie Baucham becomes the next president of the SBC it will be a step toward racial reconciliation. When Phil disagreed in a tweet last weekend, it triggered a social media tsunami. He responds to the controversy. Then, the Holy Post crew discusses Jemar Tisby’s recent article about how the murder of Trayvon Martin ten years ago ended white evangelicalism’s efforts at racial reconciliation. But was the movement flawed from its beginning in the 1990s? Then, Skye has a wide-ranging conversation with author and conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks. They cover recent efforts to rescue evangelicalism from politics, the loss of optimism in the 21st century, our naïveté about democracy, how the world is reacting to the war in Ukraine, and why the church needs to make spiritual formation more challenging not less.

News Segment

0:00 - Intro

01:59 - Pat Robertson

4:48 - Phil’s Twitter tsunami

11:21 - The end of racial reconciliation?

“Trayvon Martin’s Murder and the Death of the Evangelical Racial Reconciliation Movement” - https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/trayvon-martins-murder-and-the-death?utm_source=url&s=r

Sponsor

51:10 - Abide

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Interview with David Brooks

52:22 - Interview intro

54:06 - “Dissenters” article

58:39 - Social trust and technology

1:03:16 - “The Dark Century” article

1:05:22 - Lost view of humanity

1:13:09 - Reactions to the war in Ukraine

1:18:43 - Institutions and spiritual formation

1:26:02 - End

“The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself” - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/evangelicalism-division-renewal.html

“The Dark Century” - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/opinion/liberalism-democracy-russia-ukraine.html

Bonus Patreon segment: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63559614/

David Brooks books mentioned:

“The Social Animal” - https://amzn.to/3vYb8E2

“Bobos in Paradise” - https://amzn.to/3pO5AIB

“The Road to Character” - https://amzn.to/378B7yh

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 499. Some Southern rap to say that if Vody Bachum becomes the next president
0:06.0	of the SPC, it will be a step toward racial reconciliation. When Phil disagreed in a tweet last
0:11.8	weekend, it triggered a social media tsunami. He's here to respond to the controversy.
0:17.2	And then we discussed Jammartisby's recent article about how the murder of Trayvon Martin 10 years
0:22.2	ago ended white evangelicalism's efforts at racial reconciliation. But was the movement flawed
0:28.0	from its very beginning? Then I have a wide-ranging conversation with author and conservative New
0:33.2	York Times columnist David Brooks. We cover all kinds of issues including how to save evangelicalism
0:39.1	from politics and responses to the war in Ukraine. This is a very full episode, so let's get rolling
0:45.7	here is Holypost 499. Hey there, welcome back to the show. This is Holypost podcast. I'm Phil
0:50.9	Vysher. I'm here with Skyjutani. Hi Sky. Hi Phil. And Caitlin Chess. Hi Caitlin. Hi Phil.
0:59.5	And Jason Rugg. Hello Jason. Hey there. How many miles? None today. Nothing. No, I wouldn't
1:07.6	got a haircut instead. That is not the same. That's not the same. Oh, I can't see that. You're in
1:13.0	the dark. Yeah, I saw on Twitter. Oh, somebody made fun of me. Yeah, someone takes sky because I
1:20.0	got a haircut and sky can't. It was very meaningful. It's not nice. It's seen. But it was so funny.
1:28.5	So like tag and Caitlin because she can't be a pastor in the SPC. Oh, now it's time for the theme song.
1:58.5	So Pat Robertson popped up last week. Like the Groundhog. Yeah. It's more months of winter or
2:06.9	whatever. Pat Robertson popped up and we will have six more weeks of bad eschatology.
2:13.9	So he decided to inform us that Vladimir Putin is being driven by God to invade Ukraine so that
2:24.8	we can bring about the end times. It didn't take very long. Actually, it kind of did. He took more than
2:31.2	one week. Took about a week for this to become part of the end times. He's pretty old.
2:39.9	So you see no one else processing this slowly? No one else jumped on it sooner. I haven't seen
2:46.0	many others jump on this is it. This is it. Gog and Magog. Which is, you know, that new Branda
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