Facing Election Day Anxiety with God (with David French)

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready to cast your ballot?

In this final episode before the presidential election, host Curtis Chang and “founding friend” David French explore the tense feelings and tough questions Christians face as they prepare to vote. They explore how political instability might actually be a gift that pushes Jesus followers to adopt a mindset that seeks to defend the vulnerable, and when it’s necessary challenges “people of good will.” Curtis and David also discuss how social media often amplifies instability rather than providing insight, the importance of finding a virtuous purpose amid uncertainty, and the need for prayers of lament.

Referenced in this Episode:

Read Curtis Chang’s Washington Post opinion piece Anxious about the nail-biter election? Here's how to survive it.
Read Augustine’s City of God online
Read Curtis Chang’s book Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas
Read Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl
Engage with our course The After Party

Engaging with Prayers of Lamentation:

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0:00.0	Good Faith listeners, we are overwhelmed by the number of you that showed up to the live recording of this podcast. Thank you.
0:09.5	There are two more upcoming election events to keep on your radar. First, join us on November 4th, Election Eve, for an online hour of prayer open to all, featuring Tish Harrison Warren, Dr. Charlie Dates, Sarah Billups, and our after-party trio, Curtis Chang, David French, and Russell Moore.
0:28.5	We'll follow that up with a post-election good faith recording on November 6th that you can watch live featuring Curtis, David, and Russell.
0:37.2	If you want to be part of these events,
0:39.5	check the show notes to find out how.
1:15.3	Music 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.
1:19.9	And the world is about to hit the presidential election.
1:25.0	And we all could use some help in making sense of this momentous event. And the perfect person to help me do that is, of course, my founding
1:30.1	friend, David French. David, welcome back again to the Good Faith podcast. Well, thanks, Curtis.
1:36.6	It's always great to be here. I'm happy to do this on, is this going to be the last good faith podcast before the election?
1:45.9	Yeah, we'll do, we will have, this is it.
1:48.5	This is the last full one.
1:50.4	So this is it for us to actually try to help each other and help our listeners make sense of this upcoming election.
1:59.0	David, you have written a lot about it.
2:01.3	You have some great thoughts.
2:02.5	We're going to want to plumb your thoughts.
2:04.9	But before we get to the realm of thoughts, David, I want to get to the realm of feeling.
2:09.5	David, emotionally.
2:11.2	How are you feeling?
2:12.5	How would you describe your emotional state at this moment?
2:16.7	I would say surprisingly calm.
2:20.3	You know, look, there's a kind of liberation in a weird way and just not having any idea
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