The Heresy of White Christian Nationalism with Rev. Jim Wallis
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The Reverend Jim Wallis is long-time strong advocate for peace and justice. He is also an American theologian, writer, teacher and political activist. He is best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and as the founder of the Washington, D.C.-based Christian community of the same name. Now Wallis is the Director of the Center on Faith and Justice and inaugural chair in Faith and Justice at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. And as such he is very concerned, as Bill is, about the dangerous rise of White Chirstian Nationalism. His podcast is Soul of the Nation and can be found here. The seminar Bill referenced, White Christian Nationalism: What it is, and how it threatens our democracy can be watched here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends, good to see you, and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod. |
| 0:09.4 | You know, I look forward to every one of our podcast together, but I've been especially looking forward to this one, |
| 0:16.6 | because it's all about one public policy issue that I've always been fascinated by, |
| 0:21.9 | and that is, what's the proper relationship between church and state? |
| 0:27.9 | It's a question, of course, that our founding fathers never resolved, |
| 0:32.1 | and it's a question we've been struggling with ever since. |
| 0:35.1 | Are we a secular nation that welcomes people of all faiths, or no |
| 0:40.2 | faith at all? Or are we a Christian nation that merely tolerates while looking down upon non-Christians? |
| 0:48.2 | And those issues have perhaps never been more critical than they are today with the emergence |
| 0:53.0 | of white evangelicals as a powerful |
| 0:56.2 | driving force in the Republican Party. They advocate what's called white Christian nationalism, |
| 1:04.6 | and they preach that our founding fathers were all white Christians, who founded a white Christian nation, that white Christians |
| 1:13.8 | are the only true Americans, that the Bible, not the Constitution is our founding document, |
| 1:20.6 | and that there is no wall of separation between church and state. And they are dead, wrong about everything. But there's still |
| 1:31.4 | a major political force supporting candidates, Republican candidates who buy their extreme views |
| 1:38.9 | of religion. I believe it's a false, distorted, and dangerous political movement. |
| 1:45.8 | And today's guest, the Reverend Jim Wallace, head of the Center on Faith and Justice at Georgetown University, |
| 1:52.5 | calls white Christian nationalism a danger to our democracy. |
| 1:57.5 | Jim Wallace, good to reconnect with you. |
| 1:59.8 | And thank you so much for joining us here on |
| 2:03.0 | the Bill Press Pod. As we say in my tradition, Bill, it's a blessing to be back with you. |
| 2:08.5 | Well, thank you. So, Jim, a couple of weeks ago, online, I attended a program that you |
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