The purpose of this episode is to answer that one question - what are we doing starting a podcast on politics? Thabiti and Nick both discuss how they became Christians and what brought us to this topic.
Thabiti reminds us that Christ's exhortation in Matthew 28:19-20 is for us to obey in every aspect of our lives, including this question of what a government does. He also notes that his blog was where he began writing about these topics, especially in recent years.
Nick talks about his own journey to become a Christian. He started both of us thinking about doing something like this when, in the runup to the 2016 election, he had an idea for a blog post that Thabiti published on that same blog. The response was... discouraging. Nick followed up with a longer piece that tried to unpack things a little bit more.
And then the 2016 election happened - and both of us felt like we didn't understand evangelicalism any more. We worried that its political convictions amounted to little more than kneejerk submission to the Republican Party. But we wondered if a new generation of Christians might be looking for something different - not a lurch in the opposite direction, necessarily, but an evangelical politics that is rightly uneasy with absolute commitments to any particular political ideology. In a word, a prophetic politics.
Hence this podcast. If you're listening, hope you enjoy it!
Produced by Ben Brophy.
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