TS&TT: Josh Abbotoy | Thinking Christianly About The Texas Border Crisis

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden talk with Josh Abbotoy, Harvard Lawyer and Executive Director of American Reformer. Josh has been tracking the border crisis in Texas and in this podcast, he helps give some guidance on how we should think about this in a Christianly way. His insight into the movements of Governor Abbott and President Biden will prove helpful for you as you consider this issue. SHOW NOTES: 2025 National Founders Conference: Revive Us, O Lord!: https://founders.org/conference Article by Josh Abbotoy: "American Crisis" - https://americanreformer.org/2024/01/american-crisis/ American Reformer: https://americanreformer.org/ PRE-ORDER A Revolutionary Reading of Romans 13 : https://press.founders.org/shop/a-revolutionary-reading-of-romans-13/ Find out more about The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org Support Founders Ministries and become a part of the F.A.M: https://press.founders.org/fam/ Founders Church Search: https://church.founders.org Founders Sermon Podcast Stream: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sermons-by-founders-ministries/id1613963681 Follow Founders Ministries: Website: https://founders.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/FoundersMin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us today on the Sword and Trial. Today, Graham and I have the wonderful privilege of welcoming into the studio from Dallas, Texas, Josh Abbottoy.
0:10.1	Josh is a Harvard-trained lawyer who does work now with American Reformer and some other organizations as well.
0:17.4	And he's been tracking the border crisis in Texas very carefully. And so he helps us to think
0:22.4	about it from a Christian perspective. He's written on this at the American Reformer and other places,
0:28.1	and he's spoken about it a lot. It's a rapidly evolving situation. And Josh's perspective on what
0:35.1	Governor Abbott is doing and how that might work for the welfare
0:38.5	of not just Texas, but the United States, is worth considering. So we encourage you to tune in.
0:43.7	If you have others that are interested in this important matter, please pass this podcast along to
0:50.1	them. If you've not subscribed or liked this podcast, we'd encourage you to do that. That just
0:54.1	helps us with the algorithms that take place on the various platforms where the sword and
0:59.0	trial exists. Welcome to the sword and trial. The sword and trial is a podcast of
1:10.2	founders ministries and founders exist for the recovery of the gospel and Trial. The Sword and Trial is a podcast of Founders Ministries and Founders
1:11.7	Exists for the Recovery of the Gospel and the Reformation of local churches. I'm Tom Askell.
1:17.2	And I'm Graham Gundon.
1:18.2	Delighted to have you join us again today. And we're looking forward to having a conversation
1:23.5	with our good friend Josh Abatoe, who's coming to us from the great state of Texas, Dallas, Texas,
1:31.3	to be exact, a place where I used to live. So Josh, welcome. Thank you, gentlemen. It's great to be here.
1:37.0	So tell us what you're doing in Dallas. Yeah, so I hooked up with Nate Fisher and the folks at Newfounding, and I'm a lawyer and private equity guy by background.
1:51.5	And so I've been doing a lot of business dealings with them.
1:54.7	And then at the same time, helping to run a we, we started a couple years back called American
2:02.9	Reformer. So we've got a journal and we've got, um, we've also got a number of other
2:07.9	initiatives outside the journal where we're trying to work with Christian institutions to
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