Trump, Faith, and the First 100 Days with David French and Russell Moore
Good Faith
Good Faith
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Is there a Christian response to our divided country?
Host Curtis Chang is joined by David French and Russell Moore to unpack what Trump's agenda and executive actions demand from people of faith. From foreign policy chaos and attacks on democratic institutions to political fatigue and Christian witness, this conversation gets real about the cost of following Jesus in a divided America. Curtis, David, and Russell confront the pull of fear and apathy—and offer a better path rooted in truth, hope, courage, and acts of worship.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- New poll: millions of Trump voters regret their choice
- Here are the top 5 immigration changes from Trump's first 100 days
- Trump's strange wording illustrates One-sided Ukraine peace plan
- David Whyte on Anxiety
- Thomas Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
- Harvard pledges reforms following internal reports on antisemitism
- Under pressure from Trump, Columbia plans its next move
- Transcript of Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Explainer Video: Brown v. Board of Eduction II Case Brief Summary
- Aurelius Augustine's The City of God: Volume I (pdf)
- Phil Wickham's What An Awesome God (Organic)
- Worship with Songs for The After Party
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- Listen to The Russell Moore Show (podcast)
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| 0:00.0 | simply to say I'm not going to merge myself into the kind of herd that would say what |
| 0:07.8 | difference does the Constitution make what difference does human dignity make what |
| 0:11.8 | difference does it make that that millions of kids in Africa are now going to |
| 0:17.7 | potentially be in danger of dying from starvation and infectious diseases |
| 0:22.6 | and other things. |
| 0:23.4 | I mean, you simply dissenting from that in refusing to embrace the cruelty of it is itself an action. |
| 0:31.1 | The main thing is to say, even if the rest of the world goes crazy, I'm not. |
| 0:52.0 | Thank you. if the rest of the world goes crazy, I'm not. Welcome to the Good Faith podcast. I'm your host, Curtis Chang, and the Good Faith podcast. |
| 0:57.1 | It is a place where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world. |
| 1:03.1 | And today, we're going to try to make sense of the first 100 days of the Trump administration. |
| 1:09.2 | And I have two perfect friends to follow Jesus together |
| 1:12.9 | to help us do that. One is Russell Moore, editor-in-chief of the Christianity Today, and the other |
| 1:18.9 | is David French, founding friend of the Good Faith podcast, who is a New York Times columnist. |
| 1:24.8 | Now, before we begin, I want to make an important distinction that we've made many, many |
| 1:29.7 | times, but it seems like we have to keep underlining, is that this is the Good Faith podcast, |
| 1:35.2 | which is different than the after-party curriculum. |
| 1:37.7 | And that's important because David, Russell, and myself, we were key voices on the after-party |
| 1:43.7 | curriculum. And the after-party curriculum. |
| 1:44.4 | And the after-party was very careful to be nonpartisan. |
| 1:48.1 | We did not even talk about the what of politics. |
| 1:50.7 | By that, I mean the what of a particular political figure or a party or anything like that. |
| 1:57.0 | We were in the after-party concentrated, focused exclusively on the biblical, timeless |
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