Micah Redding interviews Jonathan Rauch on Christianity, the role of religion in liberalism, and why Christians should embrace Jesus to save democracy.

Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington; a contributing writer of the Atlantic; and the author of numerous books on public policy, culture, and government. His latest book is "Cross Purposes: Christianity's broken bargain with democracy".

Talking points:
- The rapid decline of both Mainline and Evangelical Christianity in America
- The corresponding rise of illiberalism, authoritarianism, polarization, and dangerous pseudo-religions
- The symbiosis between Liberal Democracy and Christianity
- Why even secular society needs Christians
- The Christian case for Liberal Democracy
- The network epistemology of Karl Popper and Charles Sanders Peirce; and how that touches on faith and science
- Institutions as the infrastructure of knowledge, and the foundation of technology
- How can Christians help save democracy?

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