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David A. Ritchie on the origins of nationalism and naming our idols

Tent Talks with Dr Stephen Backhouse

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How Do You Introduce to Your Congregation the Powers That Be?

i think what's fascinating about this is, on our podcast, we've often talked about the powers, and, you know, walter wink, powers that be. Now you bring it up in a very spiritual way, in the sense ofe actual spiritual realities, and which i am open to. I spent a good portionof my early christian life and more of a pentecostal oriented church that was very much a a leaning into what i would now consider a christian nationalist deology and teaching. And so part of that was i felt like by appealing to the spiritual dimension of this phenomenon, that i would actually build a bridge to some of the people that i'm most

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