Tim Alberta: The Political Poisoning of the Evangelical Church

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The Bulwark

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this Christmas weekend, we revisit our conversation with Tim Alberta about the morphing of evangelicalism from a spiritual disposition to a political identity, a development Alberta calls "heartbreaking." He tells Charlie Sykes that Evangelicals are turning against each other over conspiracy politics and Donald Trump. This encore episode was originally released in May. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:07.4	Welcome to the Bullwork Podcast. I'm Charlie Sykes.
0:10.6	As we head into the Christmas holiday,
0:12.6	we're sharing another one of our favorite episodes from this year.
0:15.8	This one featuring the Atlantic's Tim Alberta,
0:18.8	discussing how politics has poisoned the evangelical church.
0:22.8	The son of a pastor, he wrote about the war for the soul of the church back in May.
0:27.3	And Tim shares here how the morphing of the evangelical movement
0:31.2	does something with a political identity is heartbreaking for him.
0:35.1	And it's a powerful episode.
0:36.8	Tim's also the author of American Carnage.
0:39.4	We're just going to jump right into the interview.
0:41.6	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:42.4	So welcome back to him. How are you?
0:44.6	Hey Charlie, I'm doing okay, man. How are you?
0:46.8	Well, you know, this is a tough piece to wrestle with.
0:49.2	I'll be honest with you. Because, you know,
0:51.6	it's one of the things that I will admit
0:53.8	that I have had the hardest time understanding over the last.
0:56.9	And now it's, you know, going on five, six years.
0:59.6	The transformation of the, you know,
1:02.1	weight evangelical churches.
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