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Uncommon Unity with Guest Richard Lints

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode of White Horse Inn, Michael Horton interviews Richard Lints about his new book Uncommon Unity and dives into the history of American politics and social issues in relation to Christianity. (Episode SP011)

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0:00.0

You talk about the inclusion and exclusion narrative of democracy.

0:07.3

Can you briefly, I know there's a lot, each one of these issues, you deal with at such

0:13.2

link that's hard to summarize it here, but try.

0:18.1

The inclusion narrative, I think, was part of the genius of the American Revolution

0:22.5

that it included more people than it had ever been included before in determining their

0:27.7

own destiny in the political apparatus.

0:31.7

The exclusion narrative, side by side with that inclusion narrative, was that more were

0:38.3

also excluded from the beginning.

0:40.8

We know we were not granted the right to vote until the early 20th century, African

0:46.1

Americans still after the Civil War.

0:48.7

Native Americans often were just simply pushed to the west against their will.

0:55.0

We know the ways in which immigrants historically were always stereotyped and often granted no

1:00.8

access to the polls, only to find later the next generation, those stereotyped immigrants

1:06.7

turning around and stereotyping the next generation of immigrants.

1:10.1

So ours is that as every human story is, it manifests some good by virtue of the fact

1:17.6

that God has made us in his image and some deep and profound brokenness because of the

1:24.4

human condition.

1:37.0

Applying the riches of the Reformation to the Modern Church, this is White Horse's

1:41.6

Inn, a weekly round table discussion about theology and culture.

1:56.1

Hello and welcome to another edition of White Horse Inn.

1:59.4

I'm Mike Horton and I am very excited to be talking to my old and dear friend, not that

2:05.1

he is old, but we've been friends for a long time.

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