Evangelicals Shouldn't Be Embarrassing: The Oklahoma Student's Essay and How Our Faith Has Changed

Описание: It's episode 309, and our last podcast of 2025! We're coming full circle from our podcast on right-wing authoritarianism to talk about that viral Oklahoma student essay and why Christians rallying around bad arguments makes all Christians look terrible. Then Keith and I get vulnerable about how our faith has changed over the last few years. We’ll also share some of the exciting things coming in 2026!

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*TIMELINE*
00:00 Introduction & Looking Back at 2025
4:28 Full Circle: The Oklahoma Student Essay Controversy and how it reflects authoritarianism
13:14 Anti-Intellectualism in Evangelicalism
17:16 Why Kids Leave the Faith (It's Not What You Think)
23:04 The action step to learning to sit with other perspectives
26:14 Keith and Sheila: The gospel is so much bigger than we tend to think it is
41:19 Jesus Called Out Religious Leaders, Not "The World"
48:10 Seeing Sin as Brokenness, rather than only breaking “the rules”
54:51 What if the gospel was about creating wholeness
1:01:08 Our 2026 Plans