S2 Ep1097: Why Secularism is Good for Christianity: Dr. Michael F Bird

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Dr. Michael Fn. Bird is deputy principal and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia, and has authored more than 30 books. Mike is a world renown New Testament scholar and theologian, and he's recently engaged modern questions surrounding politics and Christian identity, which has been captured in his more recent book Religious Freedom in a Secular Age, which forms the backdrop to our current podcast conversation. In this dialogue, we talk about evangelicals and politics, Christian Nationalism, Secularism (and why Christians should celebrate it), transgender ideologies and the public sphere, and many other politically related topics.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology Narrow. My guest today is my friend,
0:04.6	the one and only doctor, Michael Byrd. Mike Byrd is deputy principal and lecturer in theology
0:09.6	at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia. He's also a world renowned biblical scholar and
0:16.3	theologian, the author of over 30 books, including the recently released book Religious Freedom
0:23.1	in a secular age, a Christian case for liberty, equality, and secular and secular government. He also
0:28.3	is the author of the forthcoming book, a bird's eye view of Luke Axe, and we talk about a lot of
0:32.4	stuff related to politics. What it even means to be living in a secular age and he even kind of
0:37.6	helps correct our understanding of what secular age even means, and then we kind of go back and forth
0:42.4	on evangelicals and their involvement in politics and what that should look like. We end by talking
0:48.0	about how certain issues related to the trans conversation is woven into the fabric of a lot of
0:53.9	our political discourse and our Christians should think through that. So please welcome back
0:58.0	to the show, the one and only doctor, Michael Byrd.
1:11.0	Michael, it's so good to have you back up the podcast. I do have to say our relationship
1:16.4	goes way back to when I was a PhD student in Scotland, you were a new professor at Highland
1:23.9	Theological College. I think it was what it was called. Is it still called that?
1:26.8	Yes, it still is. It's still there. It's a wonderful college nestled in the very the very summit
1:33.2	of the Highlands just outside in Venice, which is right off of Loch Ness. So you were a few miles
1:39.5	away from Nessie. Did you ever see Nessie? No, no, but I drove past Loch Ness many, many times and I
1:46.0	did wonder if I if I threw a fishing line in there with a big chunk of mate on it, you know,
1:51.2	what would I get? I just went there recently last last year and did a little more research on
1:56.7	on the myth, whatever you want to call it. And I didn't realize how many reported sightings there
2:01.9	have been like hundreds a year or something like people report seen seen Nessie some pretty wild
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