Thank you. Welcome to the conversation. That Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris.

It's a cold day here in upstate New York and

someone just sent me an article from the Gospel Coalition.

And I thought, let's go over this article.

The title looks interesting.

I haven't read it yet, so we're going to discover it together.

But I had a few thoughts.

I wanted to share with you about the Gospel Coalition before we get into it,

because I was thinking about this.

My buddies who are more meat and potatoes, get or done, mission accomplished, working class,

they don't like the Gospel Coalition all that much.

In fact, you could make a graph, and the more someone's like that, the masculine persona, the

less they're going to like the Gospel Coalition.

I started thinking, why?

Why is that the case? And I have three reasons why number one they

push the political envelope left now they could say yeah but progressives in mainline

denominations and in the secular circles are more leftward than we are.

True, but you shouldn't be trying to compare yourselves to people who think guys or girls and girls are guys. I would think. If you're

using the standard of evangelicalism and where it was even five or ten or

15 years ago, they are moving the envelope left. They're pushing that needle.

That's number one. Number two. the show a relationship between social justice activism and the gospel and it happens all the time and I think it goes

it passes under a lot of our our we kind of read an article and it just passes under our nose or over our head

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