The 2024 election is shaping as much as be probably the most consequential and weird political showdown in at the very least a era, with historic components rising on a near-daily foundation.
Even earlier than the fallout over the newest debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, 2024 was being referred to as the largest election 12 months in historical past — and with good cause.
Seven of the world’s 10 most populous international locations, together with the USA, are slated to carry nationwide elections all year long. However it’s the Biden-Trump battle that’s capturing probably the most consideration throughout the nation and globe.
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With so many eyes on the American political panorama, Christian Publish reporter Ian Giatti is launching a brand new investigative podcast geared toward exploring the electoral panorama by way of conversations with high Evangelical voices from throughout the political spectrum.
“Politics in the Pews,” launching July 12 throughout podcast platforms (subscribe right here), will examine the historical past and affect of the Evangelical motion in American politics, the place church buildings and Christian leaders stand — and extra.
“We want to really focus our audience and Christians at large in America to start thinking about the significance of this election,” Giatti mentioned, including that he desires to “get Christians engaged and involved” in exploring why this election really issues.
Take heed to Giatti preview “Politics in the Pews”:
The “Politics in the Pews” host famous an plain actuality: that this “unusual election” might get “even more unusual as we go forward,” which is why he’s hinging his investigative podcast on key concepts and discussions surrounding the marketing campaign and election.
“[We want to take] a look at where we’ve been as a country and as the Church,” Giatti mentioned. “The history of the religious right movement, for example, the Moral Majority, how Evangelicals have influenced politics over the last half-century.”
Moreover, the present goals to discover why the election issues, what’s at stake, and why Christians ought to pay shut consideration. In the end, Giatti desires to encourage folks to go to the poll field in November.
“[We want to] make sure Christians understand — please, please go out and vote, regardless of what you may think about election integrity, regardless of what you may think about all that’s going on,” he mentioned. “Go and carry out our civic duty.”
However that’s not all; Giatti additionally desires to “awaken people to the time that we’re living in.”
“The country is undergoing a lot of changes right now,” he mentioned. “And I think we all feel it, we all sense it, and it will continue to do so regardless of the outcome of the election.”
Giatti continued, “I think we, as the Body of Christ, need to start thinking practically. … I think we need to start understanding what it looks like to apply what we learned through the Word and in fellowship and take it into the world and into the culture.”
Along with the podcast launching July 12, a particular, in-person “Politics in the Pews” occasion will happen on Aug. 27 at Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas, (tickets are on sale right here). This occasion will assist spherical out the podcast dialog whereas additionally digging deeper into some related and pertinent electoral subject material.
This particular occasion will embody panels that discover Evangelicals’ historical past as a motion, Trump’s impression, and what a second Trump administration might appear like. One panel will even focus on “Christian nationalism,” a time period more and more utilized in secular and faith-based circles.
“[This will be a] discussion around what it is, what it isn’t, how it’s being used to bludgeon and silence the Church versus concerns within the Church about what it may be and how it may look,” Giatti mentioned.
Discover out extra in regards to the in-person occasion right here. And you’ll want to subscribe to “Politics in the Pews” earlier than the podcast launches July 12:
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