From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Our professional obligation is to cover our subjects fairly. We must maintain the same high standard,

even when we don't like somebody we're covering, especially perhaps when we don't like that person.

Otherwise, why have standards at all?

This is your host, Scott Bertram.

And that's Cheryl Atkison, host of Full Measure on Medi Sinclair TV stations across the country.

We'll hear from Cheryl later on excerpts from a lecture she gave on behalf of Hillsdale College

at a recent national leadership seminar on slanted journalism and the 2020 election.

First, we're joined now by Dr. John Grant, Associate Professor of Politics here at Hillsdale

College. Dr. Grant, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. You've taught a class here on

campus previously, Christianity in Politics. What are your goals for the class for your students, and what sparked your interest in this topic?

Well, I have a personal interest as a Christian to figure out, well, how, you know, starting long before I was teaching this, how do the teachings of Christianity relate to political life?

My goal for the class is to get students thinking about different ways,

different Christian or non-Christian thinkers, actually,

critics of Christianity have conceived of the relationship between Christianity and political life

and related to questions like, well, what is the meaning

of virtue for Christianity, which in a way has to be concerned with politics because it's about

how we're acting and things like that. Does Christianity promote strength? What does it promote

strength in life? Or a lot of critics of Christianity Christianity say no, it's a religion of death

that promotes weakness and is that true? Questions like, get the students thinking about that.

Let's step back a bit and kind of talk about the foundations of the class and what you'll be

discussing. What historically has been the relationship between Christianity and political order?

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