Welcome to the conversations that matter of podcast. My name is John Harris.

I wanted to share some more old gold with y'all if I may. I remembered so I read the article from 2017 the blog post that I wrote on the

Gospel of Racial Reconciliation where I didn't really have the terminology

to identify critical race theory or even the term

woke wasn't in my vocabulary but I'm talking about those concepts. I remembered right after that that I had written this in 2014. This is September 30th, 2014 and so this was so I think I incorrectly stated I was at seminary in 2015. It was actually 2014. It was that

fall semester. I wrote this during the fall semester of 2014 and this gives you a

window. This is like a historical window into what was going on in 2014 that led to what's happening today.

The anti-Christian nationalism stuff, which is, let's just be honest, there's a lot of

anti-patriotic stuff that that sentiment I I was seeing

some of that back then but we didn't have terms again we didn't know exactly what

was going on and but there was something in the air and hardly

anyone talked about this I don't remember anyone it was I felt very alone just

I'm like oh this is what I'm seeing I don't know anyone else who says this there

probably were people but I put it out there and of course I didn't have a platform at the

time no one really read it but I part of why I did this at the time was I wanted to remember I wanted to go back and be like what was going on is kind of like a

journal and this is this is interesting to me so the title of my blog in September 20th, 2014 was Why the American Dream

should still matter to young evangelicals. So why am I arguing that? Because I

guess it didn't matter. That's the sense I had at the time and this is what I wrote a few months ago

the Gospel Coalition released an editorial that went viral in the

evangelical world entitled five observation about young five observations about Younger Southern Baptists.

The observations they published were as follows.

Number one, Younger Southern Baptists have chastened

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