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![“I'm in bad enough shape that this is probably not going to mean, you know, I live through this, but at, you know, six and a half months now, after a 90 day diagnosis, [I’m] incredibly blessed to get bonus days, weeks, months, Sunday worships, and family dinners.” Ben Sasse gives an update on his ongoing cancer treatment. Watch: Listen:](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2077393929591284115/amplify_video_thumb/2077393558252699648/img/-Wp5ufWkRjsX8xTt.jpg)
“I'm in bad enough shape that this is probably not going to mean, you know, I live through this, but at, you know, six and a half months now, after a 90 day diagnosis, [I’m] incredibly blessed to get bonus days, weeks, months, Sunday worships, and family dinners.” Ben Sasse gives an update on his ongoing cancer treatment. Watch: Listen:
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Should Christian Nationalism and Catholic Integralism be taken seriously? Ben Sasse answers. “‘Should they be taken seriously?’ I mean, ultimately I think no — but I want to be humble about how and why we get there.” “Can people who are skeptical of a lot of Enlightenment assumptions be reasonable in making those cases? Of course. I'm pretty sympathetic to a lot of what the Enlightenment offered us in response to many of the things that had just come before. But that doesn't mean that the Enlightenment is at all a foretaste of heaven.” “I think there is a temptation right now to have an over-realized eschatology where people want to find a city that has foundations. ‘Right now, dang it, I'm ready to build it and I want it to be better and I want it now. And I want to smash the people who are in the way of it’ is tonally the way a lot of these folks talk.” “But philosophically, having a debate is one thing and claiming that they're doing practical politics is quite another. So I think it is important, without us, you know, trying to answer a lot of these questions, to at least acknowledge there are Catholic claims about integralism that a lot of Protestants seem to pine for and lust after without working through — what would that really mean?” “I just look at a lot of the debates of the last two months about women's suffrage and I just kind of want to shake my head and say, ‘Man, this is a weirdo online phenomenon.’ There is no chance on earth that any of these folks who are advancing some sub-varieties of Christian nationalism are actually thinking there's math by which they're going to end women's suffrage. And yet they talk like it. Because online, it seems really provocative to say things like that. And I don't really know what it's worth to linger on some of these silly online debates.” Watch: Listen:
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“Ben is functionally a wicked deist a lot of the time… I'd still really like to trust in Ben, not in God. ” “And if I could bank these gifts, that'd be great. And the breath is a way of saying, ‘What are you talking about, you fool?’... God sustains us, and in him we get to live and move and have our being.” Ben Sasse on how Ecclesiastes is ministering to him during his cancer treatment. Watch: Listen:
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Ben Sasse: "One of the weird lines Timothy Keller (1950-2023) used to say is, 'I hate this, but I would never want to go back to the prayer life I had before pancreatic cancer,' which I thought sounded pretty weird. . .But then I felt, what a blessing that I'm saying, 'Lord, come quickly, Maranatha. Thank you for all of the different things that I used to cling to that right now seem really, really trivial because they're actually really trivial.'" Ben Sasse
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Ben Sasse “30 years ago, 300 years ago, 3,000 years ago, people didn't really have the ability to allow your consciousness to be tempted to leave the dinner table you're at. And now we're sort of more tempted to be away from the spot where our body is than to actually be fully present there.
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“You can't get to Christian nationalism from the specific articulations of state-supported Christianity in the early Republic, because they do not want the state making determinations about what Christianity is.” — Miles Smith IV (Miles Smith IV) “In the early Republic, across the board, there is a real sense that we do not want Christianity associated with the idea of an American nation.” “Christianity was something other than the government.” “Our idea — especially insofar as people on the right articulate what gets called Christian nationalism — is an anachronism. You can only think of Christian nationalism as downstream from what we might historically call liberal Protestant assumptions. And I'm not saying all of those liberal Protestant assumptions are heretical per se.” “You can't get to Christian nationalism from the specific articulations of state-supported Christianity in the early Republic, because they do not want the state making determinations about what Christianity is. “Think of it this way: they're happy with the church telling them what Christianity is, but they don't want the state telling the church what Christianity is.” “In that sense, there's actually a pretty capacious place for ecclesiastical influence in the early Republic. I think people see that and say, "See, that's Christian nationalism." No — I think what's happening now is that we want the government to do the leading on that.” “When historically, at least in the United States, it was churchmen, educational institutions, and civic celebrations that aren’t even necessarily state-supported that were doing that. In the early Republic, there were many people speaking to the state. Now what we tend to want is actual politicians and government officers doing this.” Watch: Listen:
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How should the state enforce natural law? Adriel Sanchez asks David VanDrunen
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“What you have after the Council of Trent is a very strict set of dogmas that are either not decided in the Middle Ages or contradict what was said and decided in the Middle Ages. So that neither the Protestant Reformers nor the post-Tridentine Roman Catholic Church are exactly in continuity with the previous centuries.” — Michael Horton
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If politics is war, when do the ends stop justifying the means? Kevin Vallier on Christian Nationalism.
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Ben Sasse: “...and all of that dross will be gone. We are going to be around the table with our Lord, and he's going to be the center, and we're going to be sinless, and we're not going to be trying to put ourselves on the throne, because there'll be so much more joy for us in him being on the throne. And us, who would have been willing to be servants or slaves at that feast, we're going to be sons and daughters.” Ben Sasse
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An acquaintance with church history often leads people to Rome, but an extensive knowledge of church history leads them away. In episode 5 of Defending the Reformation, Dr Jordan B. Cooper, Gavin Ortlund, and Michael Horton discuss the visibility of the church.
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