Is Politics Dividing the Church? Tom Wright & Preston Sprinkle on Jesus, Empire and Christian Identity

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In this timely classic edition of the Unbelievable podcast Billy Hallowell hosts theologians Tom Wright and Preston Sprinkle for a timely conversation on faith, politics and the church’s public witness. For more Tom Wright subscribe to the new YouTube Channel for the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast. Drawing fromJesus and the Powers and Exiles: The Church in the Shadow of Empire, they ask what it means to follow Jesus when political loyalties divide congregations, nations and families. Should Christians vote, protest, withdraw, or engage? How should the church respond to nationalism, race, abortion, immigration, war and empire? Wright and Sprinkle explore the Bible’s political vision, the danger of idolatrous allegiance, and the need for Christians to model a different kind of kingdom: one shaped by unity, holiness, wisdom and the Sermon on the Mount. Subscribe & Support 👉 Support thought-provoking conversations and help keep the show going at www.premierunbelievable.com/geolink/donate💡 🎧 Never miss an episode! Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast a www.premier.plus/unbelievable 🎙️ 🔗 Get bonus content, updates, fascinating articles, and early access to new episodes - absolutely free! Join now at www.premierunbelievable.com 📢 Follow usInstagram: https://instagram.com/premierunbelievable Facebook: https://facebook.com/premierunbelievable Tik Tok: https://tiktok.com/@premier.unbelievable X: https://x.com/UnbelievableFE

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0:00.0	From the 10th of May, Christian Aid Week is seven days to make a difference.
0:04.9	How will your church raise funds to beat poverty and injustice?
0:08.7	Selling my plants.
0:09.8	Collect change.
0:10.9	Sponsored rod.
0:11.9	Money raised for Christian Aid Week could help urban farmers in Kenya to grow food,
0:16.6	feed their children and build lasting change.
0:19.6	Are you in?
0:20.4	Seven days, your faith, make it count.
0:23.2	Download your church fundraising pack at christianaid.org.uk.
0:27.6	Christianaid week begins the 10th of May.
0:30.5	If you follow Jesus, you're already doing God's work.
0:34.2	Not just on Sundays or in church, but in those emails and financial reports.
0:39.0	The kitchen tables are on the school run.
0:41.7	I'm pastor and author Tom Nelson.
0:43.8	And in my new podcast, God's Work, we're going to completely change how you think about
0:47.4	your job.
0:48.3	So step into my office for some weekly workplace wisdom.
0:52.1	Search God's Work with Tom Nelson on Premiere Plus, or wherever you get your
0:56.0	podcast. I've often said we're quite good at thinking what it might be like for Jesus to have
1:04.4	all authority in heaven. We've hardly begun to scratch the surface of what it might look like for
1:09.2	Jesus to have all authority on earth. Most people will look out of the window and say, well, he obviously doesn't,
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