The Hangover Chapter 7: Chris Stirewalt and David Glade

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🗓️ 1 July 2021

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The Hangover concludes on a unique note, as David Glade, rector of Virginia’s Christ the King Anglican Church, joins Chris Stirewalt to discuss what the future holds for religion in a divided America. Politics, the pair note, can be an especially alluring idol. Today, even shopping at Home Depot is seen as a political act, and the forces of populism and wokery have supplanted real faiths in the lives of many Americans. Committed Christians, meanwhile, increasingly focus on relatively trivial political issues rather than deeper ethical matters. With politics, David observes, “a little more disinterestedness may not be a bad thing” when true religion can offer so much more to human beings. He and Chris also reflect on the evolution of American Christianity and how the relationship between evangelicals and the GOP changed in the age of Trump. Show Notes: -David’s work at Christ the King -The Falls Church split -The Great Awakening and the American Revolution -Mircea Eliade on what draws humans to the sacred -Timothy Keller: “Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump and Roy Moore?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Chris Neierwald and this is The Hangover, a limited run podcast from the dispatch
0:05.3	and dispatch media that aims to figure out how Republicans took the shortest trip for
0:09.2	a party in nearly 70 years, from total control in Washington to absolute minority.
0:14.8	The GOP doesn't seem very interested in understanding why, so we'll have to do it for them.
0:19.5	How did the surprise success of 2016 give way to defeat, an effort to overturn the election,
0:24.4	and the siege of the U.S. Capitol, and what comes next?
0:27.6	The founders were more concerned about the state interfering in the church than the
0:32.1	church interfering in the state, and with good reason, using religion to advance political
0:37.0	goals can be dreadfully effective and always corrosive to the spiritual health of the religious
0:41.9	body.
0:42.9	We all know the story of how conservative Christians stormed the battlements of the Republican
0:46.5	establishment starting in the 1980s and changed the GOP.
0:50.6	What we tend to think less about is how Republican political ambitions have changed the evangelical
0:55.9	movement.
0:57.1	As I thought about that more and more, I realized how close this topic was to my own heart.
1:01.8	I hope you'll forgive me, but the discussion here is less about the future of the Republican
1:05.7	party and more about the future of the church in a bitterly divided America.
1:10.7	That's why we're going to be joined by David Glade.
1:13.1	He's the director at Christ the King Anglican Church in Alexandria, Virginia, got his
1:16.7	Divinity degree from the Trinity School for Ministry and is completing his doctorate now.
1:21.4	More impressively, he is the father of six lovely well-behaved children.
1:24.4	He's also my pastor.
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