Good Faith Classic: What the Heck is an Evangelical? (with David French)
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🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It’s the 75th Good Faith episode and we’re celebrating our “diamond” podcast by running back one of our first episodes. First released in November 2021, this episode is a “classic” (in our minds) because we define terms around several key questions that have recurred on Good Faith: “What is an ‘evangelical?’ Is it a set of religious beliefs, a set of cultural beliefs, or a set of political beliefs? How does evangelicalism compare with fundamentalism?” Is “evangelical” a term worth salvaging for Christians?”
Show Notes:
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Pew Research Center: “More White Americans adopted than shed evangelical label during Trump presidency, especially his supporters”
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Barna: “Survey Explores Who Qualifies As an Evangelical” (including the 9-point Evangelical)
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Ryan Burge: “Why ‘Evangelical’ is becoming another word for ‘Republican’”
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The French Press: “The American Crisis of Selective Empathy”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang. And in getting ready |
| 0:06.4 | for this week's episode, I realized something that this week's episode was the 75th episode |
| 0:14.2 | of Good Faith podcast. This is our Diamond Jubilee episode. And some of you have been with us |
| 0:20.7 | from the beginning. Thank you so much for all of you original members of the Good Faith community. |
| 0:26.7 | And as I was getting ready for this podcast this week, our Diamond Jubilee, I reviewed our |
| 0:32.4 | back catalog from when we first started. And I was really struck by how there were some |
| 0:38.5 | discussions back there in the back catalog that were especially valuable. If you've been here |
| 0:45.4 | with us from the beginning, you may actually even forgotten some of those early episodes. |
| 0:50.0 | And if you've joined later, maybe you never even heard some of them. And so this week for our |
| 0:56.4 | Diamond Jubilee, I am going to announce that we're going to start occasionally a special feature |
| 1:02.8 | called Good Faith Classic. Good Faith Classic. And what Good Faith Classic is, it's the equivalent of |
| 1:09.7 | the stories that you tell around the campfire that you tell kind of repeatedly. Because for folks |
| 1:16.8 | who have joined a new the campfire, they need to hear the old story to really understand what it |
| 1:22.4 | means to be part of this community. And even for those who have been around for the whole time, |
| 1:27.6 | it's like those stories that you tell again and again, because it again defines you and reminds you, |
| 1:32.7 | oh yeah, this is kind of what defines us. So today, this week, we're going to release our first |
| 1:39.3 | Good Faith Classic. And we're not going to do this often, but we'll do this occasionally when |
| 1:42.9 | feels like it's a particularly appropriate. And I thought it was particularly appropriate |
| 1:47.2 | this week to release our very second episode of Good Faith that goes back from November in 2021. |
| 1:55.9 | And it's called What the Heck is an Evangelical. And I especially felt like it was critical to revisit |
| 2:03.2 | this ground, to retell this particular story, because it's so relevant to some of our recent |
| 2:08.6 | conversations. For example, last week's episode with John Ward on deconstruction. What does it |
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