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Megan Basham

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2458 total appearances

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

making sure that everyone is getting what they need, which is a very amorphous definition that could mean anything to any person.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

We know where justice is and where we find the definition of justice.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

And I did find it pretty fascinating that even though this Bible study curriculum is not supposed to be about partisanship, it's not supposed to tell you how to vote, what to vote for, but how you should approach it.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

When Rockefeller noted the funding, they said,

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

it's going to be unrolling in the battleground, and they use that word, battleground of Ohio.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

And none of these people, Curtis Chang, David French, or Russell Moore, live in Ohio.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

So that was interesting.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

And then the big issue, when you look at it, you go, in part of the Bible study, they say, really what Jesus wants for you when you approach politics is, yes, you think about personal relationships, but the relational approach and how you approach it relationally

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

is what you should prioritize, not policies.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

And I went, that's what politics is policy.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

Politics is setting policy by definition.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

So I don't know what that would mean to say I'm going to approach politics relationally and not with an eye toward policy.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

What?

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

Yeah, I couldn't make sense of that.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

And so if you follow me on Twitter, I posted a screenshot of it and I went,

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

I am trying to make sense of what this means because that's what politics is, setting policy.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

Yeah, I mean, that was essentially what I took away from that was that you should be somewhat

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

quiet.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

I don't know if they would have used the word ashamed, but that was how I came away from it, going, gosh, you should just be very gentle in how you present your opinions and your worldview.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

To a certain degree, you go, well, yeah, you don't want to be a jerk.