Tim Alberta Worries Politics Is Poisoning the Church

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🗓️ 25 May 2022

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The following episode was recorded on May 13, 2022. “Having grown up just down the road, the son of the senior pastor at another church in town, I’ve spent my life watching evangelicalism morph from a spiritual disposition into a political identity,” Tim Alberta recently wrote at The Atlantic. “It’s heartbreaking.” On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, Alberta and Moore discuss the shift in evangelical life that has taken place over the past several years. They share honest, insightful stories about the grief of unwillingly losing relationships over political differences—stories that many listeners may find familiar. They talk about changes in politics, namely the culture of high-energy political passion we see today, and what it looks like for Christians to live as people of truth in a chaotic age. “The Russell Moore Show” is a production of Christianity Today Chief Creative Officer: Erik Petrik Executive Producer and Host: Russell Moore Director of Podcasts: Mike Cosper Production Assistance: CoreMedia Coordinator: Beth Grabenkort Producer and Audio Mixing: Kevin Duthu Associate Producer: Abby Perry Theme Song: “Dusty Delta Day” by Lennon Hutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.4	Every week here we explore questions and conversations from a Christian perspective, and this week I wanted to talk about a
1:14.7	fascinating article in the Atlantic this week by Tim Alberta who is with us today
1:21.6	I spent a lot of time with Tim Alberto over the years and recently
1:25.4	as he's been working on this project, but I found the article to be really compelling as a story, not just as an analysis, and that was something
1:37.4	I was hearing from people all over the country as they were reading it as well is that there's something about this
1:44.4	story that resonates with a lot of people. I was working on
1:50.8	of all the this is morbid and Maria will my wife Maria will tell you that she
1:55.8	thinks this is morbid but I have a funeral service written out for myself to
2:00.8	to leave for her and the kids when the day is there and the other day I was
2:05.8	adjusting it because I was looking at some of the people that I would ask to do
2:12.0	eulogies that wouldn't want to do eulogies for me after 2016 and some of the things there.
2:19.4	Didn't want to put them in an awkward situation since they don't talk to me anymore and I was taking them
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