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Good Faith Classic: What the heck is a Christian nationalist? (with David French)

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

For this episode, we rerun David and Curtis tackling the topic of Christian nationalism. What is it exactly? How does it relate to a genuine Christian understanding of how faith should relate to a nation? And how does it relate to our Founders’ intentions? Curtis and David also explore the nature of healthy patriotism and how to love your national home, warts and all.

  • The After Party Informational Pastors' Lunch. Wednesday, July 26 from 12:00pm-1:30pm in Independence, OH. Email [email protected] for further details and the link to register.

-Thomas Kidd: “Christian Nationalism vs. Christian Patriotism”

-Deseret News: “What the latest data tells us about Christian nationalism”

-French Press: “Discerning the Difference Between Christian Nationalism and Christian Patriotism”

-French Press: “The Seeds of Political Violence Are Being Sown in Church”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast from your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith Podcast

0:22.0

is a production of redeeming Babel, and it's where friends who follow Jesus help each

0:27.0

other make sense of the world. And for this week's Good Faith episode, we're doing a good

0:32.8

faith classic on the topic, what the heck is a Christian nationalist? And the reason I was

0:40.2

motivated to rerun this Good Faith classic is I'm about to head into a season where I'm going

0:45.7

to be doing a lot of work on the after party. The after party is the project that David

0:50.9

French, Russell Moore and I are leading to provide curriculum for the church to help us make

0:56.8

better sense of politics. And one of the reasons why I believe we need to make better sense of politics

1:03.4

is because of the rise of thinking that could be characterized as Christian nationalist thinking.

1:09.9

And so to do to help us prepare for that, I wanted to revisit the question, what the heck is a

1:17.5

Christian nationalist? How do we spot the contours of this kind of thinking about politics that I

1:23.8

believe is at odds with the gospel? So that's why we're doing it. And in fact next week, this is very

1:31.2

next week, I'm going to be in Ohio trying to lay the groundwork for the after party and speaking

1:38.3

to a bunch of pastors and leaders. And while I'll put in the show notes, some of the dates and times

1:45.1

where I'll be in Ohio, if you happen as a listener, happen to be in Ohio, come and see me.

1:50.0

I'd love to connect as always with good faith listeners out there. And also because of my travels

1:56.4

and preparation, we will be taking a short summer break next week. So there will not be a good faith

2:02.0

episode of any sort coming to you next week. But stay tuned. We've got plenty of great episodes coming

2:07.4

for you for the rest of 2023. Super excited about that. And without further ado, here is good

2:14.0

faith classic tackling the question, what the heck is a Christian nationalist?

2:26.4

So here's what we're going to talk about today, everybody. We're going to talk about Christian

2:32.1

nationalism. And why are we going to talk about Christian nationalism? Well, for a couple of

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