French Friday - “Buckets of Evangelicals”

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

Skyejethani, Society & Culture, Philvischer, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, 226012, Christiantaylor, Atheism, Veggietales

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🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Senior editor of The Dispatch and constitutional attorney, David French, and Holy Post co-host, Skye Jethani, discuss why the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Convention should waive their attorney-client privilege in the ongoing abuse investigation. Then, French explains why the increase in self-identified evangelicals between 2016 and 2020 isn’t good news, and why he now puts “evangelicals” in three different buckets. Finally, they examine claims from some neo-fundamentalists that empathy is a sin. French says the problem in America isn’t too much empathy, but selective empathy.

SBC Executive Committee review [1:17]
https://religionnews.com/2021/09/21/sbc-executive-committee-agrees-to-pay-for-abuse-review-stalls-on-waiving-privilege/

Defining “evangelical” [15:28]
https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/did-donald-trump-make-the-church

“The American Crisis of Selective Empathy” [33:26]
https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-american-crisis-of-selective

Transcript

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0:00.0	David French, welcome back.
0:01.6	Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.
0:03.6	Yeah, before we jump into this, I have to give a shout out to one of our listeners,
0:08.1	Carrie Lynn Paulson.
0:10.0	So last time you were on the show in August, she tweeted,
0:13.2	and she petitions to have at least one Friday per month be French Friday on the Holy Post.
0:19.2	And I told her, I'm in on Twitter and then you jumped in and said, sure, so,
0:24.4	Carrie Lynn, thank you for the suggestion. That's why David's back with us. And hopefully,
0:28.5	we'll be back on maybe a monthly basis if we can do this. And in honor of your suggestion,
0:33.3	Carrie Lynn, we are calling this French Friday.
0:38.5	I even saw an email logo for it. I mean, that's incredible. We're still working on the details
0:43.5	but I wanted to give you a preview so that there will be a special logo. And if you get really
0:47.6	fortunate, David, Phil might actually compose your own ukulele theme song.
0:52.4	No, I mean, that's, no, that's too much for anybody to hope. You really, he's been very busy lately.
0:59.1	He's been very busy, but you never know an inspirational strike.
1:03.1	Yes, what day it is.
1:06.0	It's French Friday. It's French Friday. So grab your prize and say,
1:09.7	hooray, David, French is here to play on French Friday. It's French Friday.
1:16.9	Okay, we're going to hit a number of different topics today. But let's start with the most
1:19.8	current thing going on, which is a number of people been asking me online about the SBC Executive Committee.
1:27.2	That's kind of news that just hit this week of what's going on. I haven't followed it super
1:32.4	closely. There was a report in religion news service today that kind of gave some
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