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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.76.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

David French takes control of The Remnant once again while Jonah is off to the long prairies of Texas. His guest is Curtis Chang, a theologian at Duke Divinity School and former Evangelical pastor. Together, David and Curtis explore the nature of vaccine skepticism among Evangelicals and the compatibility of Christianity and classical liberalism. They also preview a new podcast focused on the challenges facing American Christianity, Good Faith, which will premiere on The Dispatch later this month. Despite Jonah’s absence, make sure you tune in with bingo cards at the ready! Show Notes: -Christians and the Vaccine -Curtis: “Our Fellow Evangelicals Need to Get Vaccinated” -David on Evangelical vaccine rejection -Curtis and David’s previous vaccine discussion -David Leonhardt on COVID’s partisan death toll -Classical liberalism and Christianity -David’s recent book, Divided We Fall -The conflict between Evangelical elites Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, ladies and gentlemen, could I please have your attention?

0:18.8

Don't touch that iPhone. This is still the remnant, but I'm not Jonah Goldberg. I'm David

0:36.6

French. I'm filling in with Jonah who is off. I think when it back when I was at a

0:42.2

national review, Rich Lauer used to say that whenever somebody was gone, they were

0:46.0

quote, on assignment. We'll say Jonah's on assignment. Jonah is gone. He is not in the

0:53.0

office. He is not able to record the remnant, but you've got me. And I've got a special

0:58.1

treat for you today. We're going to give you a preview of a new dispatch podcast. It's

1:04.0

called the Good Faith podcast. And it's me and it's my friend Curtis Chang. Say hello

1:09.2

to the people Curtis. Hello. And when do I get to go on assignment, David?

1:13.5

No, you are always going to be chained at the desk for the podcast. So this podcast is

1:20.5

going to be a brand new dispatch podcast. It's coming out later this month. And it's me

1:24.6

and it's Curtis. And what we're going to do is we're going to talk, introduce you to

1:28.8

Curtis. And we're going to talk about some pretty darn interesting stuff about Christians

1:34.0

and the vaccine, which is going to lead into a discussion of classical liberalism. Yes,

1:40.0

I promise. They're very closely connected. And we're going to show you why. And then who

1:45.6

knows where it goes from there? But Curtis, why don't you introduce yourself? You know,

1:52.3

who are you? You're a former pastor. You're also what a fellow something, something that

1:57.3

fuller seminary and what else? Well, it's great to be introduced to the dispatch audience

2:04.0

here. Again, my name is Curtis Chang. I am somewhat of you straddles the world of secular

2:10.6

institutions and the world of Christian faith. So I am one hand and a former pastor of an

2:17.2

evangelical covenant church. I'm a senior fellow at Florida Theological Seminary, faculty,

2:22.6

consulting faculty member at Duke Divinity School. So that's sort of my faith foot. My

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