From Revivals To Public Policy: When Faith Shapes Culture

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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If spiritual fireworks don’t change the neighborhood by Monday, what are we missing? We take a hard look at a century of American revivals that stirred the heart but barely nudged the culture, and then we trace a different path: how revivals become awakenings when believers are discipled and Scripture is applied to daily life. Not just belief, but apprenticeship. Not just emotion, but formation that shapes families, work, and public decisions. We dig into the Great Commission’s overlooked co...

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Wall Builder Show, the place where we take on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective.
0:14.0	I'm Rick Green. You're about to hear from David Barton at the ProFamily Legislators Conference.
0:18.2	And if you miss yesterday, go to wallbuilders. Show, and you can get yesterday's program because it's a three-part series here.
0:25.1	This is a presentation David gave at the opening night just a week ago at the
0:29.5	pro-family legislators conference.
0:31.2	And we want you, our listeners, to the Wall Builders Show, to be able to hear this because
0:34.8	it's a great understanding the Times type presentation
0:37.7	and understanding what time it is in America and then what do we do about this moment in time?
0:42.9	How do we seize the moment before us? Let's jump in with David Barton at the pro-family
0:46.8	legislators conference. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he was chancellor and then made himself fewer. He just appointed himself
0:57.1	the leader of the whole nation. When he came to power, he chased the Frankfurt school out as
1:02.8	being way too radical. Those guys are crazy. So they picked up and they moved. It landed in
1:08.9	Columbia University, came to America, and got set up in our elite
1:13.2	schools in the Northeast, and started spreading through those schools. So not only Columbia, but if you
1:18.8	look at Princeton at that time, the president of Princeton was a guy named Woodrow Wilson.
1:23.5	And one of the comments he made while he was in the school there was, the purpose of the university
1:27.9	should be to make a son as unlike his father's possible. We know, for example, over the last 20 years,
1:34.0	80% of all Christian kids have gone to secular universities have left the faith. So they've been
1:40.1	very good at making kids unlike their father, whatever that happens to mean, whatever
1:44.7	he had in mind with it, that's what's happened as a result. So when you look back at those
1:49.3	three revivals that cover about 100 years, particularly the two, the 1871 and the 1900 ones,
1:56.5	they cover really from the 1870s to the 1930s. that's when you see the rise of Darwinian socialism.
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