Krista talked to Kevin today on the Family Meeting about the fall of Syria, his theory about the drone situation and other geo-political what-not.

Article: https://stream.org/syria-how-did-it-come-to-this/

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Yesterday on the Family Meeting, Monique and Krista discussed the recent events surrounding James Lindsey's claim that he got six pages from the Communist Manifesto published on a "woke Right" website.

Related Resources:

• Article: "The Liberal Consensus and the New Christian Right"; https://americanreformer.org/2024/11/the-liberal-consensus-and-the-new-christian-right/

• Lindsey's initial X post: https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/1863976644769120329

• Lindsey's related article: "A Communist Manifesto for Christian Nationalists: Testing the Woke Right"; https://newdiscourses.com/2024/12/a-communist-manifesto-for-christian-nationalists-testing-the-woke-right/

The BIG reveal of our Giving Tuesday campaign, plus Monique's review of the movie, "WICKED." Watch this before you take the kids to see it!

Related resource: "The Post-Christian Morality of ‘Wicked’"

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/wicked-christian-movie-review/

You asked for it, you got it. Krista went to see the Bonhoeffer film over the weekend and we're going to talk about it. Plus, we have a preview of our goals for 2025.

We discussed three BIG news stories related to DEI this week.

Resources:

• New study: https://networkcontagion.us/reports/instructing-animosity-how-dei-pedagogy-produces-the-hostile-attribution-bias/

• Popular level summary: https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/why-was-this-groundbreaking-study

• Robby Starbuck: https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1861183474667004141?fbclid=IwY2xjawGy_ZhleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHVDh-F9XIp_VpFMnOp66FNYBxzkxYKowcc-8MSK2lTXfewiDjabn4JOnRA_aem_r_GxlqD8sTxfsOBcxosJHQ

• MEI vs DEI: https://x.com/ericldaugh/status/1861091572609143026

We have been at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society this week. This is where the scholars who write the textbooks and commentaries that your pastor or future pastor is reading all come together and present papers about their current projects. And it's when Monique and Krista try to sit in on the most progressive papers we can find in order to see what's coming out of evangelical seminaries. Buckle up as we talk about the good, the almost correct, and the heterodox.

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Krista shares a NEW teaching today, outlining a better––more biblically informed––path when it comes to hiring.

Previous teachings:

• Good, Bad & Ugly of Diversity Hiring | Family Meeting | 3/7/24 -- https://www.youtube.com/live/qyKlpP75rAw?si=K_i6yVjXjZ5xUath

•Representation: What Does it Mean? | Family Meeting | 3/14/24 –– https://www.youtube.com/live/HCD0dDXpEVI?si=cAH2UccDwtE08YVO

• The Shell Game of DIVERSITY | Family Meeting | 9/4/24 -- https://www.youtube.com/live/X0O3DCKtJe0?si=-njm9U2LUw78DzAI

Monique and Krista react to viral videos related to the aftermath of the election.

Resources mentioned:

• Here is where Krista explained why people vote for Trump: https://www.youtube.com/live/IjGjvzkVrgA?si=1elESEnl6drZZbd3&t=1917

• Here is where Krista explained why evangelicals vote for Kamala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k9wvB_0sp8

Monique and Krista reacted to two recent documentaries making the rounds on social media this week:

• The Real David Platt

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ieClVIxqA

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQ0qcgitnU

• The 1916 Project

Free this month on X: https://x.com/1916projectfilm/status/1848814078854369541

This election season feels exhausting. We saw a video this week where yet another Democrat was in a black church telling everyone how to vote. Monique explains why this "isn't Christian nationalism" (even though it is).

Krista reviewed seven different models for how the government and religion can interact. Here is a link to the article: What Is the Spectrum of Major Views on Political Theology? A Proposed Taxonomy of Seven Views on Religion and Government (https://christoverall.com/article/longform/what-is-the-spectrum-of-major-views-on-political-theology-a-proposed-taxonomy-of-seven-views-on-religion-and-government/)

Toward the end, Monique shared a few thoughts about the importance of differentiating between "being fair" and socialism when talking to social justice-minded people.

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