Neither Left Nor Right? Christian Conservatism (with Ryan Helfenbein)
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Dr. Owen Strachan and Ryan Helfenbein, Executive Director of the Standing for Freedom Center, discuss the journey into Christian conservatism and the current state of the movement. They explore the concept of the neither left nor right paradigm and the need for biblical balance in political engagement. They also address the crisis of politics and conservatism today, highlighting the importance of Christian influence and the impact of the Enlightenment. The conversation concludes with a discussion on the significance of religious liberty in politics.
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| 0:00.0 | Neither left nor right has been very influential as an ideology among, in particular, younger evangelicals in the last decade. |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to Grace and Truth. My name is Owen Strand. I'm going to be |
| 0:22.4 | your host. Today on the podcast, I want to discuss the journey into Christian conservatism with my dear |
| 0:29.3 | friend, Ryan Helfenbine. Ryan is the executive director of the Standing for Freedom Center at |
| 0:34.2 | Liberty University's VP of Communications there. He's a dear friend. |
| 0:37.6 | He's a very sharp thinker, excellent communicator. And so we're going to talk about neither |
| 0:41.6 | left nor right. And we're going to first discuss how we ourselves journeyed into by the grace |
| 0:46.6 | of God, this strange and interesting territory we call Christian conservatism. But Ryan, I need to |
| 0:53.1 | welcome you. So there it is. |
| 0:54.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:54.9 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey, great to be on with you again. |
| 0:57.6 | Owen, as always. |
| 0:58.5 | And I love this topic, especially on the subject of neither left nor right. |
| 1:04.2 | I think that's very appropriate. |
| 1:06.4 | I vote that in 2025, we retire that term or that phrasing forever. |
| 1:12.8 | We just need to kill it. |
| 1:14.2 | It needs to be done with. |
| 1:15.7 | I have a feeling it won't be done with. |
| 1:18.4 | But it's sort of defined a particular kind of neutrality that once existed. |
| 1:25.0 | It was somewhat tenable for a period of time. And now we are not debating |
| 1:30.5 | balanced budgets or term limits or parking meters. It's much more insidious than that. |
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