Moscow Gives the Finger to Holiness: A Biblical Response
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
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🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Dr. Owen Strachan discusses a controversial video released by New St. Andrew's College in Moscow, Idaho. He addresses the use of unwholesome speech and graphic language in the video and emphasizes the importance of holiness and biblical boundaries in communication. Owen also explores the need for a joyful countercultural spirit and the dangers of getting caught up in foolish controversies. He calls for repentance and a focus on the gospel as the means of forgiveness and transformation.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, tis the season for controversy and evangelicalism as per usual. |
| 0:12.5 | Recently, New St. Andrews College put out a video that has caused quite a stir on social media and understandably so. |
| 0:20.6 | New St. Andrews is the college that was founded by |
| 0:23.3 | Doug Wilson in Moscow, Idaho. And I have friends at New St. Andrews. I respect the work of New |
| 0:30.2 | St. Andrews. I don't have a vendetta against it. But when this short commercial for NSA, I'm going to call |
| 0:36.2 | it NSA from here on out, dropped on social |
| 0:38.8 | media last week, got a lot of attention and for good reason, because this commercial has some |
| 0:44.2 | real problems in it. And so I wanted to introduce this on grace and truth. Welcome to Grace and |
| 0:50.1 | Truth. My name is Owen Strand. I will be your host. Please subscribe to the podcast and review it on all |
| 0:55.3 | platforms. I work on this podcast, but I also am the senior director for the Dobson Culture Center at the James |
| 1:02.7 | Dobson Family Institute. Great Joy to be leading the Dobson Culture Center. So welcome. We need to talk about |
| 1:09.6 | this clip. In fact, I'm going to do a two-part series on the clip, |
| 1:14.2 | but then on a broader engagement of Moscow and some of Doug Wilson's ideas in general. |
| 1:20.1 | Doug Wilson is not a stranger to controversy. Neither is Moscow in general, neither is New St. Andrews. |
| 1:26.7 | I'm not going to try to dive into every |
| 1:28.5 | dimension of controversy from recent years with regard to NSA or Wilson, but I am going to connect |
| 1:34.3 | the video, which we're going to queue up in just a second, to some broader trends that I see |
| 1:39.3 | with Moscow. My prayer is not to burn anybody down at the end of the day. My prayer is that hopefully I can edify |
| 1:46.4 | somebody out there, help some folks think through some different issues, because we do need, |
| 1:53.0 | as Christians, a kind of boisterous spirit to a degree in our movement. We want to be joyful Christians. We want to be active and engaged in our |
| 2:03.6 | world, salt and light. I very much stand for those kinds of realities and biblical terms. And yet, |
| 2:08.4 | we have to make sure we do this in biblical bounds with character that is shaped by the Holy Spirit. |
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