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Episode 441: Biden’s Inauguration & the Future of the Republican Party with Peter Wehner

Updated: Jan 27, 2021


Was Donald Trump good or bad for the Republican Party? The GOP lost the presidency and the Senate, but in 2020 the party gain seats in the House and Trump also got more votes than any Republican candidate ever!



Conservative columnist and veteran of three Republican administrations, Peter Wehner, joins Skye to talk about the future of the party after Trump, and why evangelicals are the group most easily seduced by political power. Also this week, Kaitlyn Schiess joins Phil and Skye to discuss Biden’s inauguration, and to answer listener questions like—Why do so many conservative Christians oppose environmentalism? Why is there a split between older and younger Christians regarding Christian nationalism? And, why do the same leaders who say “We should be courageous enough to die for our faith” exhibit so much fear over cultural and political change?


18 Comments


Sam
Sam
Jan 31, 2021

"What does America have to offer the world?"


Like it or not, a whole heck of a lot.


As an American ex-pat living in Poland, the biggest thing that has blown my mind is just how big a cultural influence we have... For better or worse.


You go to a small town evangelical church here and they are doing translated Focus on the Family Bible studies, movie nights with translated Fireproof, or the young Christians are just straight up watching Bible Project or whatever trendy American pastor of their choice. I even know one person who started going to church because of Justin Bieber (being influenced by the pastors he was tweeting about).


This not just exclusive to church life…


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Phil Vischer
Phil Vischer
Jan 29, 2021

Hi Stephen - thanks for the feedback. Again, this is a show for thoughtful evangelicals, not conservative political pundits. (Though French and Wehner are, in fact, conservative political pundits who also happen to be thoughtful evangelicals. As is Russell Moore, who has been on the show multiple times.) Most of the names you've suggested aren't evangelicals at all, thoughtful or otherwise. I hadn't heard of Steven Crowder (I thought you were referring to David Crowder, one of my favorite Christian artists). I googled him and noticed he's currently selling body armor to support his podcast, at 10% off. Stephen - thoughtful evangelicals are not selling body armor. I'm sorry if the show isn't your cup of tea. We'll keep doing …

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Stephen Thompson
Stephen Thompson
Jan 29, 2021

@joeharrison , Thanks man. I'll check out that podcast sometime.

And I can understand wanting to be self-critical. I try to do so with myself and also with the church and America and any groups I'm a part of. But I try to do so in a way that affirms the good as much if not more as it highlights the flaws. Skipping over something like our missionary record is a reminder of something I've already been seeing from Skye and Phil, and that is that they feel so strongly about trying to wake right-leaning Christians up to the idea that their ideas could be wrong that they dismiss any facts which don't align with that narrative.

Even if this…

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Peyton Avery
Peyton Avery
Jan 29, 2021

NPRs History Podcast, Throughline has a very interesting episode on the history of evangelicalism and climate change: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/14/923715751/the-loneliness-of-the-climate-change-christian. Definitely worth a listen!

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Melody Foster
Melody Foster
Jan 29, 2021

Really enjoyed the podcast today! You guys talk about so much that it's hard to comment thoughtfully at the end, but the connection on Christian environmental views was new and interesting to me. I was always a little confused by that as a teenager. Because even if global warming wasn't real (and I didn't think it was at the time) didn't God give us the earth to... take care of? And yet, Christians would be upset that people were angry about pollution as if that didn't harm the earth in other ways that we might want to avoid. It was a weird flip from the, "don't litter, treat God's earth with respect" line I got when I was 6. I thought…

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