Why Christians Should Be More Involved with Politics, with Jeff McAlvey

Life and Books and Everything

Clearly Reformed

Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts, Christianity

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Life and Books and Everything, Jeff McAlvey joins Kevin and Justin to discuss the Christian’s role in politics. Jeff worked closely with Michigan Governor John Engler in the 90s, oversaw the state appropriations process when Governor Engler was the Senate Majority Leader, and started a lobbying group after his time in Washington DC. Listen in as Kevin, Justin, and Jeff unravel some of the misconceptions around politics in America and offer advice on how church members can love their neighbors and be more politically involved in their local communities.

This episode of Life and Books and Everything is brought to you by Crossway. The Crossway book we want to highlight this week is, When the Stars Disappear: Help and Hope from Stories of Suffering in Scripture (Suffering and the Christian Life, Volume 1) by Mark Talbot. When the Starts Disappear engages the topic of suffering, not only through Reformed theological and philosophical insights but with profound biblical reflection and personal experience through the author himself.

Book recommendations

Kevin:

God's Design for the Church: A Guide for African Pastors and Ministry Leaders by Conrad Mbewe

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz

Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels' Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism by Matthew Thiessen

Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting by Ronald Baily and Marian Tupy

Justin:

What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics by O. Carter Snead

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Jeff:

Absolute Surrender by Andrew Murray

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings and salutations. Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything. I'm Kevin DeYoung,
0:17.4	and good to be with you again. Thanks for listening. I'm joined by Justin Taylor.
0:23.7	Justin, hello. Our friendly accomplice, Colin Hanson, is not with us. He is in somewhere
0:31.3	parts unknown. I think he's administering the COVID test for Nick Saban.
0:43.3	I think, yeah, I think once he got the positive, he decided,
0:46.2	let's just get some people within the state of Alabama,
0:51.9	maybe some interns or something to ring up three negative tests.
0:54.9	So Colin, wherever you are, we welcome you back. But we have a special guest who we'll introduce in just a moment, and I'm really excited for this conversation.
1:00.1	I want to say thank you, as always, to Crossway, our sponsor. They really do publish great
1:06.7	books, and they care about their authors. They care about the books that they publish. They
1:10.7	care about serving the church. Lots of about the books that they publish, they care
1:11.0	about serving the church. Lots of ministries say that, and I bet a lot of them mean it, but I know
1:17.6	that Crossway really does and it really guides what they do and how they think about the books
1:22.1	that they publish. Today we want to mention Mark Talbot has a new book called When the Stars Disappear, and it's
1:29.5	about suffering.
1:31.1	And Justin, I know you know Mark fairly well.
1:34.6	Tell us a little bit about Mark and why he's uniquely qualified, perhaps, to write a book
1:40.3	like this.
1:41.8	Yeah, Mark is one of the godliest, most helpful voices that I know is a
1:47.4	Christian philosopher at Wheaton College. He really integrates reform theology and philosophical
1:54.6	analysis in his whole teaching and writing ministry. So this is actually the first of four volumes that he's doing on suffering in the Christian life.
2:04.6	It's not a major part of this volume, but Mark himself as a teenager fell from a 50 feet from
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