The Importance of the Wesley's in American History

The Wesley's mattered a lot more than I previously thought. John and Charles Wesley were not insignificant, but there really was something extraordinary happening at that time. And so I think it's just a little bit of a blind spot that we have as Americans," he says.

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Welcome back to the Losing Our Religion series of The Russell Moore Podcast! This special series of episodes around Russell Moore’s newest book, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America, explores navigating the Christian faith in confusing times.

This week, Moore welcomes his good friend, author, and professor Karen Swallow Prior to the show. Moore and Prior discuss their newest titles—Prior’s The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis and Moore’s Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America, which have powerful crossovers. They talk about the history of evangelicalism, the significance of metaphors and language in the church, and biblical interpretation. Their conversation covers conversion stories, social media, and their thoughts on the classic John Bunyan work The Pilgrim’s Progress.

Tune in for an episode that is engaging, insightful, and infused with hope in the gospel.

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis by Karen Swallow Prior
Areopagitica by John Milton
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
The work of Flannery O’Connor
The work of Thomas Kinkade
Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior