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Hey friends welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw my guest today is Doug Stewart who is CEO of the libertarian Christian

Institute and host of the libertarian Christian podcast

He holds an MD from miss you seminary and currently lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and three kids

So this podcast came about because you know, I've been

Doing a lot of thinking and writing about a sort of

Christian political

Identity now most of my thinking in this area has been on

Kind of within the text thinking about the old a new testaments and how the people of God have thought of themselves

Politically speaking like what what would the political identity be of the Jewish exiles living in Babylon

What would the political identity be of early Christians living under the authority of the Roman Empire?

So that's where that's and that this is where I get my whole like exiles and Babylon theme

Trying to think of ourselves as politically

Distinct from the empires that we are living under

So most of my reflection has been within the text of scripture within sort of Christian theology

But you know obviously people are

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