Hi, everyone. This is Curtis, and I am excited to tell you about a new feature of the GoodFaith podcast and it's called Campfire Stories.

Now, in a great campfire, everyone has the opportunity to share their stories. And so, in Campfire Stories, we want to hear from you.

We want to hear a story about what you are doing along the themes of the GoodFaith podcast, perhaps it's something about how you're living out your relationships with political polarization, how you are trying to reflect the image of God in your institution and organization, or what you're doing with your money or your vocation, anything that has been sparked by the themes that we've covered here in the GoodFaith podcast is fear game.

It doesn't matter if it's a big story, a small story, or something in between, as long as it's a story about what you are doing in your life.

We're not so much interested in hearing just thoughts. We want to hear stories of doing. So, we'll put a link in the show notes where you can just click on it and then supply us the basic outlines of your story of doing of living out the themes of GoodFaith podcast.

And we'll look at it and we may invite you to share that story on a GoodFaith blog, a social media, or perhaps even invite you to come on the GoodFaith show yourself and talk to me and share your story.

Like, how cool would that be? I'd love to hear from you. I'd love to talk with you. So, please consider joining the campfire by actually joining actively and sharing your story with others gathered around the campfire. Thanks.

Welcome to the GoodFaith podcast. I'm David French with Curtis Chang and I'm just going to go ahead and apologize in advance. I sound a little bit different.

I don't have that magical NPR sound that we normally have when I'm recording in the home studio. I'm on the road. I'm in Boulder, Colorado.

For something an event called the Conference on World Affairs. And so, this is actually going to be Curtis, sadly, a shorter podcast than usual.

Because I've got to go talk about the Constitution, can the Constitution survive polarization? So, that'll be fun.

So, what we're going to do today is we're going to revisit some fundamentalism talk. And if we have time, we're going to introduce a bigger subject on spiritual formation and liberal democracy.

Big stuff. But first, we're going to go back and talk about some of the fundamentalism issues that we raised last week because the response from listeners was really pretty incredible with a lot of really good questions.

But first Curtis, you're wanting to start with a kind of a mea culpa, maybe a little.

Let's go. Let's go full blown mea culture.

Okay. All right. All right.

No. So, last week's episode, we began by David and I establishing our fundamentalist street cred.

And I talked about my fundamentalist actually origin story really in the sense that I was led to Christ by some students from Moody Bible Institute, who I think those individuals, I would say, had had some fundamentalist leanings at least, I would say.

Right.

And I said in a side comment from Moody Bible Institute, a leading or important fundamentalist institution. And that got some emails back to me, David.

From some from some Moody Bible Institute alums, who acknowledged that in their own experience going to the school, they did have classmates who probably would be characterized as fundamentalists or leaning in that direction.

But that they would they argued that the institution itself was less fundamentalist and more probably in the end of conservative evangelical and the particular sort of points they were making was that as an institution.

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