Politics and Public Witness with David French

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4.7 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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David French's story takes him from rural Alabama and Kentucky to Harvard law school. Afterwards, he found himself fighting for religious liberty and free speech throughout America's court system, and literally fighting for liberty in the surge in Iraq. In 2015, he turned to writing full-time, just about a month before Donald Trump descended an elevator in New York to announce his candidacy for President. In the years since he almost ran for president and has been a vocal critic of the President on a variety of issues. David's new book is "Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Heal Our Nation". You can read his regular columns at The Dispatch, where he serves as Senior Editor. Cultivated is a production of Christianity Today. It was hosted, produced, and edited by Mike Cosper It was mixed by Mark Owens. Our theme song is by Roman Candle. Music by Dan Phelps and Roman Candle Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find clear answers to tough questions about Christianity.
0:11.1	Learn to explain your faith with courage and compassion. Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at apologeticsky.com.
0:21.9	A funny starting place, actually, for the conversation.
0:24.4	I don't know if you'll remember this, but we met at ERLC conference in 2016.
0:29.4	You spoke on the main stage.
0:30.8	I remember a few things about this.
0:32.5	You spoke, and your talk was laid out with the acronym RIFL.
0:37.5	Yes, I remember this, yeah.
0:39.4	I remember the shutter that went through the audience, because the topic was kind of where
0:45.3	conservative movement had gone wrong.
0:47.6	When the FN Rifle stood for Fox News, you could hear an audible sigh of despair in the room.
0:57.1	But then I was on a panel with you shortly after your talk, and I remember walking up on the stage, and I looked over, and you had
1:03.9	like a moleskin-style journal in your lap with the house sigil for house stark on your front.
1:21.6	And I just remember thinking, you know, in the context of the 2016 election and of everything you'd said about the conservative movement, it was apropos that, you know, we could sit there and say, yeah, winter is coming. And winter has come.
1:23.6	And winter has come.
1:25.6	There's a pine wall over're sitting on the holland
1:29.1	He seems to have the whole morning
1:31.3	Out right in front of him
1:33.2	And everything he sings from the
1:35.4	branch that he's sitting on
1:37.2	It seems to husk the leaves
1:38.9	And the colors all around
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