Liberty University and the Reality of Institutional Sin
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🗓️ 20 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the inaugural episode of the Good Faith Podcast, David French and his theological wingman Curtis Chang discuss some of the recent issues at Liberty University and how Christians should think about the concept of institutional sin. Curtis makes the theological case for how human institutions fit into the biblical narrative and that as such, they are both made in the image of God and also capable of sin and brokenness. They also discuss why it is important for Christians to place a high priority on being honest and open about institutional sin in our own ranks, amongst our own institutions.
Show Notes:
-The Roys Report: "Fired Liberty U Spokesman Tells Inside Story Behind Lawsuit | The Roys Report"
-Karen Swallow Prior: "Truth, justice and the torturing of tolerance"
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the inaugural Good Faith Podcast. I'm David French with Curtis Chang. We're incredibly |
| 0:15.8 | pleased that you're joining us. This is the first podcast of a new Dispatch podcast, as |
| 0:20.7 | I said, The Good Faith Podcast. And what we're going to be doing as I discussed in a trailer |
| 0:26.0 | that I hope you listen to is we're going to talk about the intersection of faith and |
| 0:29.4 | law, faith and culture, faith and politics. We're going to hit all of the hard issues that |
| 0:33.7 | I hit in my Sunday essay for the Dispatch.com, which I really hope you subscribe to. |
| 0:39.5 | And Curtis is my old friend. Curtis is a guy I've worked with for a really long time actually |
| 0:46.5 | going back more than two decades or around two decades actually on religious liberty issues. |
| 0:54.1 | And Curtis, why don't you introduce yourself to the folks and say a little bit more about yourself. |
| 1:00.1 | Well, David, I'm just thrilled to be doing this with you because this is really |
| 1:03.9 | part of my own personal passion as well, as well as my friendship with you that goes back |
| 1:08.3 | for so long. You know, my own sense of my own calling is to be someone called at the intersection |
| 1:14.7 | between the worlds of faith and the worlds of secular institutions. So, and I have a foot in both |
| 1:20.9 | worlds. In the faith world, I am a senior fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary, |
| 1:26.6 | I'm a consulting faculty at Duke Divinity School. I'm a former pastor of an evangelical covenant |
| 1:32.3 | church. And then in my, in my secular world, I currently lead a consulting firm that serves |
| 1:38.8 | secular nonprofits and government agencies. I teach about organizational planning at American |
| 1:44.9 | University in Washington DC, a secular institution. And so, I really am at home and feel passionate |
| 1:52.2 | about helping Christians understand how to think and live their lives as they engage with |
| 1:58.8 | the secular world. And that's really what this podcast is all about. So, I'm thrilled to get started |
| 2:02.6 | here. Well, I'm so, I'm so happy about this. We've been trying to put this together for a long time. |
| 2:10.5 | And we've had this in the planning and in the works for a long time. And away we go. So, |
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