How Faith Issues May Shape a Biden Presidency

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🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. This week, Maryland megachurch pastor Harry Jackson passed away at age 65. Over the last four years, Jackson was a member of President Trump’s evangelical advisory board. That consulting team was a marked shift in the role that faith communities had played in the executive branch in recent decades. The focus in the Bush and Obama administrations, by contrast, had been on the ways that faith-based and community groups could work with the federal government on social problems, and on hiring officials who would work on international religious freedom. What role will religious leaders, religious groups, and religion policy play in a Biden administration? And what lessons might Biden take from his presidential predecessors on how church and state can work together, and how they should work separately? This week on Quick to Listen, we wanted to discuss the future of faith in the Biden administration. Stanley Carlson-Thies is the founder and senior director of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance (IRFA), a division of the Center for Public Justice. He served with the White House Office of Faith-Based & Community Initiatives from its inception in February 2001 until mid-May 2002, and later served on a task force of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. He joined global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen on Quick to Listen. What is Quick to Listen? Read more Rate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen Follow Stanley Carlson-Thies’ work: Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance Read the Brookings Institute report: A Time to Heal Read more about Fairness for All and the Equality Act Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion.
0:14.5	Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at apologeticskyi.com.
0:27.6	This week, Maryland megachurch pastor Harry Jackson passed away at age 65. Over the last four years, Jackson was a member of President Trump's evangelical advisory board.
0:32.6	A consulting team was a March shift in the role that faith communities had played in the executive branch
0:37.5	in recent decades. The focus in the Bush and Obama administrations, in contrast, had been on the
0:43.0	ways that faith-based and community groups could work with the federal government on social problems
0:46.8	and on hiring officials who would work on international religious freedom. What role were religious
0:51.6	leaders, religious groups, and religion policy play in the Biden
0:55.9	administration? What lessons might Biden take away from his presidential predecessors on how church and state
1:01.5	can work together and how they should work separately? We wanted to discuss the future of faith in the Biden
1:07.1	administration.
1:18.1	You are listening to Quick to Listen, where we go beyond hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.
1:21.2	I'm Morgan Lee, global media manager at Christianity Today.
1:25.1	And I'm Ted Olson, editorial director at Christianity Today.
1:40.6	All right, Ted, this is a very interesting topic that I will say that I have never learned more about than during the six years that I've spent at CT.
1:44.8	All these different acronyms and offices and the different roles that they have are things that
1:49.3	I've learned a lot about doing reporting and interviewing.
1:53.3	And I'm really curious about some of your thoughts about what the shape and contours of all
1:58.3	of these will look like over the next four years.
2:00.6	Religious freedom obviously was a major conversation in the campaign period.
2:07.0	One of the things I appreciated was a few weeks ago, before Election Day, the Brookings
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