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The Lincoln Project

The Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation with Jon Ward

The Lincoln Project

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

4.78.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by author and Senior Political Correspondent for Yahoo News. They discuss the rise of the American Evangelical movement, the types of people it attracts, and how it became so closely tied to Trumpism. To hear more from Jon Ward, be sure to check out his latest book (Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation), his podcast (The Long Game), and his Substack newsletter (Border-Stalkers). If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reid Gaeland. Today, I'm joined by John

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John is covered American politics and culture for two decades as a city desk reporter in Washington,

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DC, as a White House correspondent, and as a national affairs correspondent covering two

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presidential campaigns. Today, he's an author and senior political correspondent for Yahoo News.

1:34.3

He's also the host of The Long Game Podcast and publisher of the sub-stack newsletter, Order

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Stalkers. His latest book, which came out earlier this year, is Testimony, inside the Evangelical

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movement that failed a generation, and it's available wherever fine books are sold. John,

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welcome. Hey, Reid, thanks for having me. It's great to see you and talk with you.

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No, it's good to see you too. It's been far too long, so let's talk about the book, so it's called

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Testimony, inside the Evangelical movement that failed a generation, and one thing I found

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John is that I don't want to say that you and I were on parallel tracks growing up, but you grew

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