Hi, this is Curtis. If you're hearing this, you're about to listen to the Good Faith Podcast.

The Good Faith Podcast was originally co-founded with my good friend David French,

and if you're listening to the most recent episode, that means you're about to listen to an episode with David actually as the guest.

But of course, you may be listening to a back episode with a different guest.

But either way, I felt like I needed to comment on what happened to David this week

David had been invited to speak at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America

the PCA.

But when his invitation was announced,

right-wing voices within the PCA

and also, most significantly, outside,

generated a mob-like response to him to have him cancel.

Now it's bad when individual Christians cancel other individuals who disagree with them.

But it's an outright catastrophe when an entire

denomination does this. And that's what happened. This week the PCA caved into those

mob-like voices and cancelled David's imitation.

And this act sends a signal, a chilling signal,

that thoughtful and faithful voices like David's

are no longer welcome in the PCA.

What happens next illustrates a frustrating dynamic

that makes the fight for the soul of American evangelicalism

feel so one-sided.

And the dynamic is this, while certain parties are

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