Is There A 'Coming Christian Persecution'?

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Dr. Thomas Williams, Breitbart's Rome bureau chief, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss the ongoing global persecution of Christians and share how people of faith can navigate the dangers and hostility today's culture poses to them.

You can find Williams' book "The Coming Christian Persecution" here: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-coming-christian-persecution/

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:20.8	I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.
0:23.2	As always, you can email the show at radio at the Federalist.com, follow us on Twitter
0:27.2	at FDRLST.
0:28.9	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.
0:32.1	Today we're joined by Dr. Thomas Williams, he is Breitbart's Rome Bureau Chief and
0:37.2	the author of the new book, which is out on March 21st, the coming Christian persecution.
0:42.6	Thanks so much for joining us.
0:44.4	Emily, thank you for having me.
0:46.1	This is an important topic and it's a nice field to talk about it.
0:48.8	Of course, yeah, I did really enjoy the book and I have a lot of questions based on it,
0:53.1	but just starting off here, if you could explain to us sort of how you ended up a little
0:57.1	bit about your career background, how you ended up as Breitbart's Rome Bureau Chief,
1:00.6	what led you to writing this book?
1:02.4	That would be great.
1:04.4	Well, the short story or the short version of that is back in 2014, Steve Bannon was at
1:10.4	the time with Breitbart still in kind of in charge of it.
1:13.7	And he was looking to expand to Jerusalem, Athens and Rome, kind of picking up on Andrew
1:19.5	Breitbart's belief that politics follows culture is downstream of culture and these
1:24.8	kind of cultural landmarks of the ancient world.
1:28.2	He thought it was very symbolically important to have a voice coming from these places.
1:33.4	So Athens never happened.
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