How Did We Get Here? With Pete Wehner

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How did we get here? In our divided nation - and in our fragmenting churches - fear and hatred are running rampant.

This week, Dan Allender speaks with Pete Wehner, who is an in-residence Senior Fellow at The Trinity Forum, an author, and a contributor to publications such as the New York Times and The Atlantic. Their conversation is an invitation to those of us within the body of Christ to consider the factors that influence our own stories, our faith, our political views, and our relationships with others.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:29.1	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, it is a delight to be with a friend of a dear friend.
0:35.9	And Pete Wainer, welcome to this intrepid and, shall we say,
0:43.0	effortful podcast to invite you to think with us a bit about the state of the church and
0:51.1	the condition of the human heart in the midst of a post-Trump era. How about that for a
0:57.1	beginning? That sounds like a great beginning. It's terrific to be with you. Dan, I'm a great,
1:02.7	longtime admirer of your work, so is my wife. So I'm just thrilled to be on with you and to be in
1:09.0	conversation with you. Well, it is equally, if not more so, an honor for me. And I'm just thrilled to be on with you and to be in conversation with you. Well, it is equally, if not more so, an honor for me.
1:14.1	And I'm going to introduce you for the few in our audience who may not know your name.
1:21.8	But let me just say, as a beginning, what I've noted about your writing and your speaking is that you're a man who loves language,
1:33.6	loves words, loves truth.
1:36.2	But I think what has most captured me is that in that there is a level of both humility and kindness with regard to people
1:49.7	who are not fond of you and people who differ with you, people who have actually maybe
1:56.5	at one point been friends but turned against you.
2:00.9	So the formal introduction, I think, is very impressive.
2:05.9	But what I've just discovered and attempted to put words to is,
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