Michael Wear

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Truth in the Barrel with Amy McGrath · Faith's Place In Public Life & Politics | Devil's Cut w Michael Wear · 31 Mar 2026 podcast

But also, if you actually listen and if you actually show up, it turns out that actually

A lot of folks in that socially conservative evangelical church have real concerns about labor and wages in this country.

Turns out that they have real concerns about social media use and how social media companies are affecting the lives of their children and families.

And, of course, you know, the converse works as well.

I mean, I think—

And I think we'll get into this.

But I think Donald Trump was part of his success – not the whole of it, but part of his success –

was suggesting a different kind of Republican approach to things like Social Security and Medicare.

Now, whether they've lived up to that in office is another question, but an openness to labor, an openness, and we'll definitely talk about this, a less jingoistic approach to American foreign policy.

These kinds of things appeal to a broad set of Americans in different ways that sort of were outside the early 2000s sort of political alignment.

And maybe it doesn't cause people to vote for you, but it allows for room for conversation that wasn't there previously.

It requires joyful confidence in the Lord.

I think that there is a misinterpretation out there

that the problem for those who are concerned about the influence they see of religion and Christianity on our politics, I think that there's a common misinterpretation that the most belligerent sort of forms of political engagement, religious political engagement, that the cause for that is too much confidence in one's faith.

So if only they just didn't believe so strongly, they would be more amenable in public life.

That is not my experience.

My experience is that the most belligerent forces in our politics are actually profoundly insecure.

Insecure in many ways, including in their own faith.

insecure and uncertain that their faith actually meets the test of reality.

And that's why they need to grip so hard.

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