In my third conversation with Calum McCracken, we dig into the roots of Christian Nationalism and its current rise in liberal democratic societies.
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In my second conversation with Calum McCracken, we continue exploring the place of religion and public policy in the Civil Rights Movement Calum’s undergraduate studies focused on political philosophy. He is now off to graduate school and will be working on issues of human rights on the international stage.
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We begin these three podcasts thinking about Calum’s own intellectual growth over the last few years. We explore the Civil Right Movement, the place of religion and religious ideas in the growth of this movement with particular emphasis on the prophetic tradition.
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We hear rumblings. Christian Nationalism is on the rise. Have we seen churches and Christians (and other religious people) engage social ills, protest and march, and lobby out of religious conviction to bring about change? A key example is the Civil Rights Movement that took hold in the 1960s in the USA and in Canada. We begin this two-part conversation revisiting the Civil Rights Movement and re-examining how religious ideas, narratives, songs and institutions were central in addressing the disease of racism and the dangers of white supremacy.
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