#343 - Kyle Thompson // Faith And The Ballot

About this episode

The episode discusses the intersection of faith and politics, challenging the notion that Christian beliefs should not influence political decisions.

More than half of self-described evangelicals say Christian beliefs shouldn’t influence political decisions. That single claim exposes a wider problem: a crisis of discernment where the culture quietly trains us to treat faith as private and politics as neutral. We’re not buying that split, and we’re not going to outsource our thinking to slogans like “don’t talk about religion or politics.” We walk through the State of Theology 2025 survey statement and then bring it under the authority of ...

People in this episode

Host: Joby Martin

Guest: Kyle Thompson

Topics covered

• faith
• politics
• evangelical beliefs
• discernment
• Christianity
• cultural influence

Keywords

• evangelicals
• political decisions
• faith
• discernment
• Christian beliefs
• State of Theology
• culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: State of Theology

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