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Welcome to the In All Things Podcast, where we host conversations with diverse voices about living creatively in God’s created world. This fall the podcast will be hosted by several different guest hosts, complementing the creative content found on the In All Things blog.
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Kaitlyn Schiess about her book The Ballot and The Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used And Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here. Among the topics we discuss:
- Distinguishing between better and worse ways of reading ourselves into the biblical story
- Uniquely American habits of reading the nation into the biblical story, taking every promise or command as directed towards national life.
- Worries about the wide range of political perspectives that are credited to the Bible
- What we might learn from comparing presidents' speeches at the National Prayer breakfast
- What it means to cite Scripture in a diverse, religiously pluralistic society
- The faithful use of politics in the pulpit and in public life
Get the book: https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/492154
Follow Kaitlyn Schiess: https://kaitlynschiess.com/
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