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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:00.0 | How is it that evangelicals who have long extolled the virtues of the first and second great |
0:09.3 | awakenings now think being awakened or woke is a bad thing? |
0:13.7 | And why have testimonies degenerated into a contest over who has the most dramatic story? |
0:18.9 | And how do we evolve from valuing sanctification to |
0:22.3 | reducing faith into a self-help project? |
0:25.7 | Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the |
0:30.6 | church. |
0:31.6 | I'm Julie Roy's. |
0:32.9 | And today I'm going to be talking about the evangelical imagination with Karen Swallow Prior. |
0:38.7 | Karen has just written a book by that name, and as she explains in her book, our current |
0:43.3 | crisis isn't just about Trump or celebrity pastor scandals. Evangelicalism is suffering from a crisis |
0:49.8 | of the imagination. Somehow, over the past few decades, the pool of images, stories, and metaphors |
0:56.2 | that form our imagination has become distorted and diseased, and the result has been catastrophic. |
1:02.2 | We no longer think or imagine in biblical ways. For example, instead of thinking about the |
1:08.9 | kingdom of heaven is something that advances as we love and serve and sacrifice for our fellow man, we've adopted an empire mentality, where we win by dominating our fellow man, by putting the right people in office, by winning an actual culture war, by being first, not last. |
1:26.4 | And so, if we want to navigate out of this crisis, we need to reform |
1:30.8 | our imagination. But to do that, we need to understand our history and how we got here. And Karen |
1:36.6 | has done a masterful job of researching and explaining that development. So I'm very much looking |
1:42.7 | forward to our discussion today. But before we dive in, |
1:45.6 | I'd like to thank the sponsors of this podcast, Judson University, and Mark Orta Barrington. |
1:51.5 | If you're looking for a top-ranked Christian University, providing a caring community and an |
1:56.6 | excellent college experience, Judson University is for you. Judson is located on 90 acres, just 40 miles |
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