Evangelical Elites

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

How do you use the term ‘elite?’ Is it positive or is it a term of derision? Elites, and especially Evangelical elites, have been criticized a lot lately. Collin, Kevin, and Justin have given this matter some consideration, and on this episode they offer their thoughts, turning the focus both internally and externally, with both positive and negative critiques. But first… books! They’ve been reading a lot. You’ll hear about productivity, theology, classic fiction, and of course a lot of history.

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Timestamps:

Books First! [0:00 – 2:25]

Collin is surprised. [2:25 – 7:36]

Kevin is restrained. [7:36 – 19:18]

Justin is almost finished. [19:18 – 28:54]

Elites in the Spotlight [28:54 – 37:54]

Hating on Elites [37:54 – 43:03]

Evangelical Elites [43:03 – 46:40]

Public Religious Research Institute Survey [46:40 – 49:08]

Elitists Out of Step [49:08 – 53:35]

Kevin Responds [53:35 – 58:34]

Elites Not Reading the Room [58:34 – 1:02:11]

The Inner Ring [1:02:11 – 1:03:15]

Encouragement [1:03:15 – 1:07:18]

Books and Everything:

Collin:

Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation, by Andrew Pettegree

Pilgrims and Priests: Christian Mission in a Post-Christian Society, by Stefan Paas

Kevin:

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, by Oliver Burkeman

Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement, by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning

Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body, by John W. Kleinig

The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World, by Arthur Herman

1984, by George Orwell

Justin:

Proverbs: A Shorter Commentary, by Bruce K. Waltke and Ivan D. V. De Silva

The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom, by H.W. Brands

Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President, by Ronald C. White

Lonesome Dove: A Novel, by Larry McMurtry

Articles on Elites:

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations. This is Life and Books and Everything.
0:14.2	I'm Kevin DeYoung and here with Colin Hanson and Justin Taylor. Good to have you with us as the band is back together to talk about life and books and everything.
0:24.7	We are sponsored by Crossway, grateful for the many good books that they publish.
0:29.3	Want to mention today just recently released is the ESV concise study Bible.
0:36.1	So many people, it's not an exaggeration to say hundreds of thousands of people.
0:42.4	I don't know, Justin, it's in the millions, probably, but have made use of the ESV study Bible.
0:49.5	And if your arms are tired from carrying that around, Now you have the ESV concise study Bible.
0:56.9	So you still have great resources and notes. And I assume Justin articles and essays, but in a more
1:04.8	concise format. So check that out. Anything else you want to say about that new resource, Justin?
1:11.0	Nope.
1:11.9	It's concise.
1:13.9	It is.
1:14.6	Oh, and that was a concise answer.
1:16.9	Wonderful.
1:18.1	We're going to jump right in.
1:19.4	And usually we meander through, well, there's two kinds of listeners to this podcast.
1:25.6	There's a listener that says, please do more Big Ten sports banter.
1:30.9	And then there are the other 98% of our listeners who say, how many times do I have to hit
1:38.6	fast forward 30 seconds before I get through that? So you'll be glad to know we just did all of that for 20 minutes
1:45.6	before we hit record. So it's out of our system and all the the coaching questions and Nebraska's
1:55.8	sad season and Northwestern's equally sad season. Also sad. And Michigan State's surprisingly good season.
2:05.0	So that's as far as we'll go with college football and sports.
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