Politics, Tariffs, and How Christians Should Respond to our Political Moment: Skye Jethani

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Skye Jethani is an award-winning author, speaker, and co-host of the Holy Post Podcast. Skye has written more than a dozen books and served as an editor and executive at Christianity Today for more than a decade. His voice has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post. To listen to the final 25 min of this episode, where Skye and I debate the question "should Christians vote," go over to patreon.com/theologyintheraw.com to become a member, where you can access this convo and other premium content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology and the raw.
0:02.6	My guest today is Sky Jatani, who was an award-winning author-speaker and co-host of the Holy Post podcast.
0:07.7	Sky has written more than a dozen books and served as an editor and executive at Christianity Today for more than a decade.
0:14.7	His voice has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post.
0:19.1	We had a fascinating conversation. Always appreciate the
0:23.4	thoughtfulness of Sky. And we were moving along pretty well in our discussion, but then we
0:29.4	started to wander into an area of political theology where I found out that Sky and I have
0:35.6	some disagreements about the very concept of being an exile in Babylon.
0:41.2	So that took us, gosh, about 20 minutes to unpack.
0:46.1	And then Sky decides to ask me if I encourage people to vote.
0:52.3	And I said no. And he was a bit flabbergasted by that. And so that took us
0:59.8	another 25 minutes to unpack the whole issue of Christians and voting. That last portion
1:06.8	about Christians in voting, in my response in particular, in his disagreement with my response
1:10.9	and my disagreement with his disagreement in our ensuing conversation. I'm going to make that available
1:15.3	to my Patreon supporters. So if you want the full length of this episode, then go to patreon.com
1:20.7	forward slash theology draw, became a Patreon supporter for as little as five bucks a month
1:26.1	and get access to our interesting dialogue about voting.
1:31.0	Okay, please welcome back to the show for the second time.
1:33.7	The one or only, Sky Jatani.
1:38.8	All right, Sky Jatani.
1:44.7	Good to see you again.
1:45.4	It's been a minute.
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