Government Gospels, Part 1: An Introduction to Koyzis
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Whether you consider yourself a political junkie, totally ignorant to Washington’s antics, or somewhere in between, the 2024 election discourse is demanding your attention. So before the election hype really starts to pick up, Robert hopes this series will ground Christians in a Biblical view of political engagement. In Part 1, Robert introduces us to the scholarship of David Koyzis and his work on political ideologies.
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| 1:02.0 | After completing our series on technology, I am returning to begin a new series on a topic I think is crucial for this moment in particular. |
| 1:15.5 | So it is an election year here in the good old U.S. of A, which means it is time once again to hate each other. |
| 1:27.6 | This fall, your TVs will be flooded with partisan attack ads. |
| 1:33.8 | Your social media algorithms will be working overtime to feed you hot takes, short clips, |
| 1:41.2 | echo chamber ammunition to remind you how right you are and how wrong is the opposition. |
| 1:49.8 | Conventional media will be talking about it nonstop, less in an informative way and more in a |
| 1:56.3 | sensational way because politics has become a popular form of entertainment that drives ratings. So before this |
| 2:05.1 | fall, when our society loses its collective minds and civility, I would like to preempt the |
| 2:12.8 | insanity. Now, I realize I am not the only Christian with this goal. David French, Russell Moore, |
| 2:23.1 | and a few others have launched what they are referring to as the after party, which has the |
| 2:29.2 | same goal. It's been met with a little bit of controversy and criticism, even I think on Tucker Carlson recently, but it's the same idea. |
| 2:39.9 | Christian discipleship to help us navigate the political storm on the horizon. |
| 2:45.8 | And I have been asked to review some of these curriculums and to also promote them here in Kentucky. But |
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