Nixon's Politics as a Substitute for God

The Russell Moore Show

Christianity Today, Russell Moore

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Was Richard Nixon a Christian? As America approaches the 50th anniversary of Watergate, Russell Moore welcomes Daniel Silliman, Christianity Today news editor and the author of One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation to the podcast. Silliman and Moore discuss the dissonance between Nixon’s Quaker heritage and legacy as the president who executed the Vietnam War. They also examine the former president’s relationship with CT founder, Billy Graham, and how it influenced his understanding of God and his political rhetoric. Tune in for an episode that reflects on history while speaking pointedly to the present. Resources mentioned in this episode include: One Lost Soul: Richard Nixon’s Search for Salvation by Daniel Silliman Okie from Muskogee by Merle Haggard “Checkers Speech” by Richard Nixon Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger Frost/Nixon Click here for a trial subscription at Christianity Today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.0	Every week we explore here conversations and questions from a Christian perspective to help you sort out how to live as a follower of Jesus in confusing times.
1:28.8	This week we have a conversation to seek to do just that.
1:33.0	My grandfather was an old-time FDR New Deal Democrat who voted the Democrat old
1:43.0	time FDR New Deal Democrat who voted the Democratic ticket straight down every single election
1:49.2	which wasn't that unusual in Mississippi of the time of my childhood which was a one-party
1:55.2	Democratic state except at the presidential level and what time I was walking
1:59.6	with my grandfather and I said so you've never voted for a Republican ever and he said I did one time
2:05.7	it was Richard Nixon in 1972 and I sort of laughed knowing that two years later there would be the resignation of Nixon and I said,
2:17.0	wow, what a time to start? And he stopped and said, I do not regret my vote for Richard Nixon for a minute.
2:27.0	He was definitely the right one for the time.
2:29.7	And George McGovern said that he would crawl on his hands and knees to Hanoi if it would mean peace.
2:35.8	Not quite what George McGovern meant by that, but the meaning was clear.
2:41.4	He was a Democrat, but he was a
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