Jonathan Rauch - Cross Purposes

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Author Jonathan Rauch is back on the show with his new book, Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy, and a wide-ranging, challenging, and thought-provoking conversation with Penn, Matt, and Reddi about the role of Christianity in America, Christian values from an atheist's viewpoint, and lots more.

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0:00.0	Is it going?
0:06.0	Yes, we're going.
0:07.0	Good.
0:08.0	Brothers, sisters, siblings, welcome to Penn Sunday School,
0:11.0	The music of the street
0:14.0	Brothers, sisters, siblings, welcome to Penn Sunday School,
0:19.0	brought to you by Masterclass,
0:25.4	and we are thrilled to have back on one of our favorite guests, author Jonathan Rauch.
0:29.6	Hey, guys, what do you mean one of your favorite guests? He wrote The Constitution of Knowledge, The Happiness Curve, and he's here to talk about his new book,
0:34.1	Cross Purpurposes, a surprising book written by an atheist.
0:38.6	So here he is, Preach the Love.
0:40.9	Penn Gillette, brought you by Masterclass.
0:43.8	Yeah, I am preaching.
0:45.4	I am preaching the love brought to you by Masterclass.
0:48.1	You can give 15% off at masterclass.com.com slash.com.com.com.
0:55.5	Yeah.
0:56.3	So this is, let's get right to it, Jonathan.
1:01.4	Yes, one of our favorite guests, but maybe our favorite guests.
1:05.2	You'll have to go maybe one-on-one with Piff.
1:08.3	Can you take Piff in a fair fight?
1:11.3	And I'll also say that Matt Daudley is over in Spain on a cruise ship.
1:17.6	I was right before we did this, I was in the home theater of my son.
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