Religion and Republic

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Carl and Todd dive deep into the complex relationship between religion and politics with Miles Smith from Hillsdale College as they discuss his new book, Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War. Why did he decide to write this book now, and why did he intentionally not use the more commonplace terms “Church and State”? What is the difference between Christian institutionalism and Christian nationalism? And what is the role of the church in addressing political issues? "I'm actually someone who doesn't want the church to do politics. I think the church is quite frankly, not competent to do politics." – Miles Smith Miles’ book offers profound insights into how Christians can maintain their witness in times of political polarization. Listen as they discuss the historical and contemporary challenges Christians face in navigating their faith within the civic and political spheres, Thanks to the generosity of our friends at the Davenant Institute, we are pleased to award three copies of Miles Smith’s book Religion and Republic to our listeners. Congratulations to Elizabeth B. from Poland, OH, Philip M. from Maidsville, WV, and Doug N. from Clendenin, WV.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:29.2	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:31.6	Thank you. Well, welcome to Mordification of Spin. My name's Carl Truman.
0:54.6	I'm professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College in beautiful western Pennsylvania.
1:00.2	And I'm here as always with my longstanding good friend and major pastor.
1:06.1	That's a direct quote from Megan Basham.
1:08.5	Yes.
1:08.9	Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church
1:12.0	in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1:14.0	I got that word perfect.
1:15.1	You got it.
1:15.7	You got it right.
1:16.4	You know,
1:16.6	it always astonishes me, Carl.
1:18.7	After having known you for loat these many years,
1:22.0	you still, every once in a while,
1:24.3	stumble over just some of that basic information about me.
1:27.5	Yeah. Well, it's PCA. It's far away in the trivia in the back of my mind. It takes a while
1:32.1	to pull out. It very much makes me feel unloved. I just, I want that out there. I would also point
1:38.0	out to those who are listening that Carl's much better half, Katrina is in the room with us. She's being very well behaved.
1:46.9	Normally, she's very loud and very pushy. But we've given her a cup of Lipton, which is her favorite tea,
1:56.8	and a mad magazine, and she seems to be doing just fine over there. Hi Katrina. Katrina's from
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