Last week, the country commemorated the one-year anniversary of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Phil, Skye, and Kaitlyn examine what’s changed, and what hasn’t, since the attack and what impact it’s had on both Christians and our culture. They also respond to Samuel Perry’s article about the way Christian Nationalism threatens democracy. Then, Skye talks to Australian theologian Michael Bird about the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. While Christians throughout the world affirm the Bible’s inerrancy, Bird says American Evangelicals uniquely see the doctrine as “the one ring to rule them all.” He documents many cases where inerrancy isn’t used to defend the Bible, but a particular interpretation of the Bible. Also this week—goldfish chauffeurs and the Japanese invent a finger-nibbling robot to “free all humanity.”
News Segment
0:00 - Intro 3:05 - Scientists teach goldfish how to drive https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/01/07/goldfish-drive/9131026002/
9:13 - Finger-nibbling robots https://www.ubergizmo.com/2022/01/yakai-engineering-amagami-ham-ham/
12:48 - Anniversary of January 6th Capitol attacks https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/opinion/jan-6-christian-nationalism.html https://religionnews.com/2022/01/05/violence-isnt-the-only-way-christian-nationalism-endangers-democracy/
Interview with Michael F. Bird
“Saving Inerrancy from the Americans?” article - https://michaelfbird.substack.com/p/saving-inerrancy-from-the-americans
“Seven Things I Wish People Knew About the Bible” book - https://amzn.to/33pYLV6
47:40 - Intro/Interview Start 50:44 - Inerrancy vs. infallibility 57:21 - American evangelicalism and inerrancy 1:07:46 - Global church and inerrancy 1:11:26 - Authorities of scripture, interpretation, and historic church doctrine 1:20:42 - Perspectives from the global church on other issues 1:27:21 - Interview End
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Hey guys, I wanted to get your take on how to respond to the belief that there is an unbalanced approach to the Capitol riot vs. the BLM protests and riots that took place over the course of 2020. Every time I bring up the Captiol riot to my family, I'm immediately bombarded by the fact that BLM rioted all over the country, and did indeed attempt, in some locations, to take over government buildings like state capitol buildings.
This article does a good job of articulating the worldview I'm struggling with here: https://spectator.org/the-real-insurrection-the-blm-riots/
I am indeed more deeply concerned by the January 6 riot...but I'm not entirely sure why. any advice on how to respond would be much appreciated!
The call at the end to read works of global Christians is needed. The categorization of [white] Australians as "pretty safe" because they are "not that different" compared to the "more adventurous Christianity" of Asia and Africa is not needed. By no means calling anyone racist. But the categorizations with which we use to describe Christians of other cultures and ethnic groups need to be a bit more carefully worded. The safe-adventurous dichotomy isn't a great categorization.
Skye, suggestions please on what Asian, African, other voices to read to expand our reading/listening globally?
Re: Why don't American Christians support single-payer health care? A carbon tax? Progressive income tax rates? More restrictions on the rights of private citizens to own guns? Some of it is no doubt is due to tribalism and buying unthinkingly into the culture that surrounds a person. (A fact that cuts on both sides of the ideological divide and works in all countries, not just the U.S.) But some of it comes from people looking at scholarship, reasoning, history and the like and coming to a different conclusion.