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Prophetic Politics
by Thabiti Anyabwile, Nick Rodriguez, and Ben Brophy
The purpose of this podcast is demonstrate how faithful Christians can think about politics and have those conversations with other believers and the world at large. Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile, Nick Rodriguez and Ben Brophy dive into this topic and several specific issues that touch on politics.
Episodes
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S4 Ep 6: Final Thoughts on the Election
Nick and Thabiti wrap up season 4 with their final thoughts on the 2024 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S4 Ep 5: The Case for Trump/The Case for Harris
Nick and Thabiti weigh the arguments for both political candidates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S4 Episode 4: The Role of Christian Leaders
Nick and Thabiti think about how Christian leaders should act in the run-up to the 2024 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S4 Ep 3: The Existential Questions
Nick and Thabiti chop it up about what existential questions they have in relation to the upcoming election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S4 Episode 2: The Issues at Stake in 2024
Nick and Thabiti break down the issues coming up in the current election cycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S4 Episode 1: Where Things Stand
Prophetic Politics is back. It's been a while, but with the upcoming presidential election, Nick and Thabiti thought a third season was in order. This episode is all about where things currently stand and how our Christian witness should influence our political participation. Learn more about…
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Pre Election Special!
We give some last thoughts before the 2020 election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Bonus Episode: Hopes for the First 100 Days of the Next President
We talk about our hopes for the first 100 days of the next president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S3 Episode 13: Advice for the Next President
What are our hopes and dreams for the next president? What advice would we give? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S3 Episode 12: The Christian Conscience and Political Choices
Does the Bible bind your conscience to a political party? or a candidate? We say no. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Season 3 Episode 11: Q+A Part II
We're back! You all had more questions than we could handle in one episode so we did a second. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S3 Episode 10: Q+A! Part 1
We tackled several questions from Twitter. Good stuff! Part 1 of 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S3 Episode 9: Why Are We the Way that We Are?
Our fearless leader, Thabiti, was absent for this episode. But fear not, Nick and Ben spent the episode exploring why each came to the political conclusions and positions that they did. Works Referenced: The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek Modernity without Restraint by Eric Voegelin The Origins of...
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S3 Episode 7: Confederate Statues and How We Understand History
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben discuss the tearing down of monuments and how we understand the good and the bad in historical figures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S3 Episode 6: The Supreme Court Part 2
We're back from our impromptu midseason break! (Which really meant Ben's vacation, what a slacker). In this episode, Ben, Thabiti, and Nick talk about the Supreme Court and various judicial philosophies. Follow us on Twitter @ProphPolitics Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
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S3 Episode 5: The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has long been a focus for Christians and non-Christians alike. This is somewhat unusual for Supreme Courts in democracies. Nick, Thabiti, and Ben discuss the court and how it could change. If you hear some voices in the background, that's Ben's family. Brothers, we are not...
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S3 Episode 4: Religious Liberty
Nick, Thabiti, and Ben talk about religious liberty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S3 Episode 3: Syncretism and Political Religion
Nick, Thabiti, and Ben discuss how love of country can be idolatry, what rightly ordered love of country looks like, and what traps Christians fall into regarding syncretism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S3 Episode 2: COVID-19 and its Challenges
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk about what good political leadership looks like in a crisis. They also reflect on the challenges of the pandemic, both as it relates to political questions and policy challenges. Note: This episode is a few weeks old and does not reflect the latest news about COVID-19...
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S3 Episode 1: How Long O Lord? Talking George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk about the long history of police brutality against African-Americans. There are several policy positions that should be discussed and challenged when thinking about this issue. But more fundamentally for us, how should Christians respond? How do the three of us…
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S2 Episode 10: What We Mean When We Say Prophetic Politics
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk about the meaning of Prophetic Politics and what is distinctly Christian about being prophetic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S2 Episode 9: Criminal Justice Reform
T, Nick, and Ben talk about what changes they'd like to see in the U.S. Criminal Justice System. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S2 Episode 8: Epistemology
Epistemology, did I spell that right? How do we know what we know? How can we know what's true as it relates to politics? Nick, Thabiti, and Ben discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S2 Episode 7: Social Insurance
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk social insurance, largely health care, and the various perspectives each has on the issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S2 Episode 6: Taxes
Sorry for the late upload! Ben's internet was broken. Today. Thabiti gives some Biblical background on taxes while Nick and Ben debate how much taxation is too much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S2 Episode 5: How We Think About Voting
We're back from our holiday break! Hope ya'll had a great Christmas and happy new year. This week T, Nick, and Ben think out loud about their various grids for how they decide who to vote for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S2 Episode 4: Impeachment!
Impeachment! It's all over the news. Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk about the mechanism of impeachment, it's history, and why they are grateful for inclusion of impeachment in our governmental system. One note, this episode references an episode on elections, that will be released next week. We...
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S2 Episode 3: Voting Rights
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk about voting rights in America. They take a quick walk through the history of voting rights, recent changes, and try to evaluate those recent changes in light of scripture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S2 Episode 2: Foreign Policy Nerdery
Two foreign policy nerds, Nick and Ben, get to talk about all things realism and liberalism in regards to foreign affairs. Thabiti looks on in amusement. All three of them try to apply Biblical principles to foreign policy debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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S2 Episode 1: Reparations, Are they Biblical?
In the season 2 kickoff, Thabiti, Ben, and Nick talk reparations, the current debate over them, and how the Bible can help guide that discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Episode 10: Abortion Part 2
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk about how pro-choice arguments are lacking, what the pro-life movement gets right, and what it could do better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Episode 9: Abortion Part 1
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk about the history of abortion, it's cost, and why Christians feel so passionately about this issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Episode 8: Identity Politics and Us
Thabiti, Nick, and Ben talk about identity politics and how it is viewed in the political sphere. Are such identities biblical? Anti-biblical? How do questions of identity impact how we relate to one another? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Episode 7: Political Correctness, Speech, and Scripture.
Thabiti, Nick, and the new guy, Ben, talk about political correctness, speech, and how the Bible addresses how we should speak to one another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Episode 6: Race, Racism, and the Church.
Thabiti and Nick chop it up over race, racism, and the church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Episode 5: Immigration
In this episode, Thabiti and Nick break down the topic of immigration. They explore how Scripture informs both of their views on the topic as well as sheds light on personal experiences. While recognizing the government's legitimate right to enforce it's borders, they also explore what a...
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Episode 4: Gun Control
This week, Pastor Thabiti and Nick discuss gun control and what the Bible has to say on this topic, if anything, as well as the Biblical principles Christians should consider as they think about this issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Episode 3: How Should Christians Think about Tribalism in Politics?
In this episode, Thabiti and Nick talk about political party as a source of identity, and discuss the dangers of letting that identity supplant our identities as Christians. We talk about the American Founders' approach to political tribalism, how tribalism is deeply rooted in the division of...
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Episode 2: Political Philosophies and the Bible
In this episode, Thabiti and Nick provide an overview of an age-old question of politics: what is the role of government? We trace the development of our modern ideas about this to the 18th-century Enlightenment - noting that while it wasn't a Christian phenomenon, Enlightenment thinkers had an...
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Episode 1: Why Do a Podcast on Politics Anyway?
The purpose of this episode is to answer that one question - what are we doing starting a podcast on politics? Thabiti and Nick both discuss how they became Christians and what brought us to this topic. Thabiti reminds us that Christ's exhortation in Matthew 28:19-20 is for us to obey in every...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The purpose of this podcast is demonstrate how faithful Christians can think about politics and have those conversations with other believers and the world at large. Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile, Nick Rodriguez and Ben Brophy dive into this topic and several specific issues that touch on politics.
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Prophetic Politics currently has 40 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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The purpose of this podcast is demonstrate how faithful Christians can think about politics and have those conversations with other believers and the world at large. Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile, Nick Rodriguez and Ben Brophy dive into this topic and several specific issues that touch on politics.
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Prophetic Politics is created and hosted by Thabiti Anyabwile, Nick Rodriguez, and Ben Brophy.
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