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Some councils are auditing schools and urging a ban on the terms boy and girl.

For those who are in an open or polyamorous relationship, your relationships are holy.

A gay black woman's victim status is less than that of a black trans woman, who ranks below a black Muslim trans woman.

We don't want to just win the argument of our sexuality.

We want to use this as a gospel opportunity.

It's time for Rogen Radio with Tom Frio.

Pick me! Pick me!

This is Rogen Radio, the question that has been asked.

Well, pretty much every single century that church has existed, how now shall we live?

Considering the culture and the climate that surrounds us, how are evangelicals to move, to speak, to act, engage, participate?

That is the question that was asked by one Aaron Ren writing an article at FirstThings.com.

This is a slightly dated article, but I just discovered it courtesy of you for sending it to idea at wretched.org.

And I think he does a relatively pithy job of identifying three chapters of Western evangelicalism, those chapters are positive, neutral, and negative.

The positive world was pre-1994. You could argue 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, but that was the time when it was groovy to be a Christian.

That overall it had a positive benefit for identifying with a church specifically with Protestantism, but then increasingly even Catholicism, but the world was positive toward us prior to 1994.

But then he says that in 1994 through 2014 things started changing. Again, you could pick 19.

None of these dates historically are ever precise. Like when did the Roman Catholic church go wonky? You can't just go that year. It's a progression of things. It's never that tidy, but the fall of the Berlin Wall and perhaps the most powerful year of the moral majority, 1994, when the Republicans had a majority in the house.

And so he identifies from then until 2014 the year before a burger fell. That's the neutral world. Here's what he said. It's a neutral stance. Christianity no longer has privileged status, but it's not disfavored.

Being publicly known as a Christian has neither a positive or a negative impact on societal status. Christianity is a valid option within a pluralistic public square.

But not anymore because now we are in the negative world from 2014 the year before a burger fell to today society has come to have a negative view of Christianity.

Being known as a Christian is a social negative, particularly in the elite domains of society. That's worth noting. Christian morality is expressly repudiated and seen as a threat to the public good in the new public moral order.

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