The Hangover concludes on a unique note, as David Glade, rector of Virginia’s Christ the King Anglican Church, joins Chris Stirewalt to discuss what the future holds for religion in a divided America. Politics, the pair note, can be an especially alluring idol. Today, even shopping at Home Depot is seen as a political act, and the forces of populism and wokery have supplanted real faiths in the lives of many Americans. Committed Christians, meanwhile, increasingly focus on relatively trivial political issues rather than deeper ethical matters. With politics, David observes, “a little more disinterestedness may not be a bad thing” when true religion can offer so much more to human beings. He and Chris also reflect on the evolution of American Christianity and how the relationship between evangelicals and the GOP changed in the age of Trump.

Show Notes:

-David’s work at Christ the King

-The Falls Church split

-The Great Awakening and the American Revolution

-Mircea Eliade on what draws humans to the sacred

-Timothy Keller: “Can Evangelicalism Survive Donald Trump and Roy Moore?”

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices