The Russell Moore Show - David Brooks Explains How Evangelicalism Lost Its Mind

“Are the times we’re living in really as crazy as they seem?”

This is the first question that Russell Moore has for David Brooks, a New York Times op-ed columnist, author, and commentator. Brooks’s recent column “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself” details some of the unsettling, disheartening events within evangelicalism over the past few years and highlights several individuals who are trying to forge a different path.

On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, Brooks and Moore discuss many types of people that “evangelical” can describe. They talk about the difficulties of resisting the climate of the times. And they talk about what politics are meant to do and be.

00:00 Opening
00:31 Introducing David Brooks
01:03 Are the Times as Crazy as They Seem?
06:30 Moral Loneliness
10:34 Politics Can't Give You Love
15:38 Conservatism and Identity Politics
20:33 Cultural Power in Coastal Elites
24:55 Modern Leftism
30:02 Civil War and Political Violence
34:59 Future of the Evangelical Church

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