Welcome to Conversations, That Matter Podcast.

I'm your host, John Harris.

We are going to talk about an article that Christianity today

decided to put out there a few days ago

from Richard Mao on Theocracy.

Can you believe Christianity today wants to talk about Theocracy?

I know I couldn't either, which is part of the reason I read it

and it was very interesting where their take on this.

Of course, it's not what you think.

It's not really theocracy in the sense

that usually think of theocracy.

It is this idea that God is sovereign, right?

And Christ is Lord and we celebrate and

reinforce that on Sunday. But the rest of the week, you should be a good American

pluralist. And so Richard Mao argues for this, and I want to go over it because I think he's taking a shot at Christian nationalism quote unquote even though he doesn't mention that but

Broadly speaking this idea that there should be a default setting of Christianity and social moreays and laws and that's the foundation and that's something that he wants to get away from it seems.

So I want to talk about that in this article today. I already wrote a response on Truth Script and so we are going to get into the details. Before we do though, I want to mention something coming up and it's coming up fast and you're going to want to

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