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The Sword & The Trowel

TS&TT: Rod Dreher | Stop Living by Lies! Soft Totalitarianism & Comfortable Christianity

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Sword & The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Jared Longshore talk with Rod Dreher, senior editor at The American Conservative and New York Times best selling author. They discuss Dreher's most recent book: Live Not By Lies and the soft totalitarianism, comfortable Christianity, erosion of freedoms and new religion we see on the rise in America.   Rod Dreher: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/author/rod-dreher/ Live Not By Lies: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622436/live-not-by-lies-by-rod-dreher/ Strong and Courageous: Following Jesus Amid the Rise of America's New Religion | https://press.founders.org/shop/strong-and-courageous/ The Institute of Public Theology: www.instituteofpublictheology.org Become a part of the F.A.M. | https://press.founders.org/fam/ By What Standard? Cinedoc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFHfa0s1XLM 2022 National Founders Conference: Militant & Triumphant | https://founders.org/2022conference/ Watch #WieldTheSword | https://founders.org/wieldthesword/ The Sword & The Trowel: https://founders.org/the-sword-the-trowel/   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

Welcome to The Sword and the Trial, a podcast of Founders Ministries.

0:03.6

Founders Ministries exists for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of Churches.

0:07.4

I'm Jared Longshore.

0:08.3

I'm Tom Askell.

0:09.3

Thanks for listening to The Sword and the Trial today.

0:11.1

Delighted to have you with us and delighted to let you know that the Institute of Public Theology is soon to open applications.

0:19.0

So April 15th, the application process will be opened. You can go to

0:23.2

Institute of Public Theology.org to apply and to find out more information about how to apply.

0:30.4

A big thanks to our Founders Alliance members. We're grateful for your support and encouragement.

0:34.9

We hope that you're greatly blessed by our partnership in the recovery of the gospel

0:38.6

and the Reformation of Churches.

0:40.8

Today we are delighted to have with us,

0:42.9

a man who doesn't need much of an introduction

0:45.1

to most of the folks who would listen to

0:46.6

and watch this podcast.

0:47.9

Rod Dreher has put his mark

0:51.1

on the cultural conversations we're having

0:54.1

in this nation and beyond this nation

0:55.9

as well. Most recently, with his book, Live Not by Lies, a manual for Christian dissidents.

1:02.2

And Rod is an editor, senior editor at the American Conservative. He's authored several books.

1:07.9

So the Benedict Option is one I think we've talked about here in the past as well.

1:11.2

But he's graciously given us his time today to sit in on this podcast. And he's coming to us from

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