Faithfulness in the Negative World: A Conversation with Aaron Renn about Christians in a Post-Christian Age
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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In this edition of the popular podcast series “Thinking in Public,” Albert Mohler speaks with co-founder and Senior Fellow at American Reformer, Aaron Renn. They discuss his most recent book, “Life in the Negative World: Confronting Challenges in an Anti-Christian Culture.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:06.1 | frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Albert Moller, your host and president to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:15.0 | Aaron Wren is a co-founder and senior fellow at American Reformer. |
| 0:20.0 | He completed a Bachelor's of Science in business and finance from Indiana University in 1992. |
| 0:25.4 | After beginning his career in management and technology consulting, |
| 0:28.8 | he became a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute of Policy Research with a focus on urban policy. |
| 0:34.0 | His writing has been published for example by The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, |
| 0:38.0 | The Atlantic, and First Things. |
| 0:40.0 | It is his new book Life in the Negative World, Confronting Challenges in an anti-Christian culture that is the topic of our conversation today. |
| 0:47.0 | Aaron Wren, welcome to Thinking in Public. |
| 0:49.0 | Thank you for having me, sir. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, I've looked forward to this conversation and frankly, your book, A Life in the Negative |
| 0:56.0 | World has just taken off and it has become a catalyst for an awful lot of discussion. |
| 1:02.1 | And it was based upon an article that appeared back in |
| 1:04.4 | two at first things the three worlds of evangelicalism. You have obviously sparked an awful lot of conversation. |
| 1:14.0 | Tell me, what was behind the article and what's behind the book? |
| 1:18.0 | What was driving you to this project? |
| 1:21.0 | I actually came up with the idea for my three worlds of |
| 1:25.2 | evangelicalism model in 2014. I was briefly living here in Indianapolis before I |
| 1:31.0 | moved off to take a think tank position in New York City and I got |
| 1:35.1 | invited to see a Christian short film or a series of Christian short films that a friend of mine |
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