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The Sword & The Trowel

TS&TT: The State of Evangelical Leadership | Megan Basham’s Unanswered Questions

The Sword & The Trowel

Founders Ministries

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today on The Sword and The Trowel, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden discuss Megan Basham's recent article: "How the Federal Government Used Evangelical Leaders To Spread Covid Propaganda to Churches" and the backlash she has received from the evangelical elites and tone police. They cover Justin Taylor's article at The Gospel Coalition, Francis Collins' cowardice, the NY Times Dissenters and more.   2023 National Founders Conference: https://founders.org/2023conference/ Megan Basham article: https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches Megan Basham tweets: https://twitter.com/megbasham Megan Basham TS&TT Episode: https://founders.org/interviews/tstt-megan-basham-churches-forcing-the-shot-dividing-christians-with-a-new-religion/ Erick Erickson article: https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/im-going-to-regret-writing-this Justin Taylor - The Gospel Coalition: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/an-earnest-plea-to-slow-the-evangelical-twitter-wars-and-to-drop-the-tribal-performance-art/ NY Times | The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/evangelicalism-division-renewal.html WSJ on Fauci and Collins (Dec 21, 2021): https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins-emails-great-barrington-declaration-covid-pandemic-lockdown-11640129116 See more on Cobert: https://twitter.com/William_E_Wolfe/status/1490456426493399041?s=20&t=RXGMK25DSbN9udWUoRGg3Q https://www.yahoo.com/video/jerry-seinfeld-gets-hilariously-vulgar-lesson-in-broadcast-standards-and-practices-from-stephen-colbert-070221272.html Shop the Founders Press Store: https://press.founders.org/ Become a part of the F.A.M. https://press.founders.org/fam/ The Institute of Public Theology: https://www.instituteofpublictheology.org/ Wield The Sword: https://founders.org/wieldthesword/   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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Welcome to the Sword and the Trial. A Sword and the Trial is a podcast of Founders Ministries.

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Founders Ministries exist for the recovery of the gospel and the Reformation of local churches.

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I'm sitting here in southwest Florida, Tom Askell.

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I'm Graham Gundon.

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Graham Gundon. And we are delighted to come to you and talk today about some of the things that are going on in the evangelical

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