Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. It's me, Ali Stucky, your host. This is a podcast of CRTV.

You should go to crtv.com slash Ali and subscribe so that you can watch me while I'm speaking.

My code is Ali20 and I think that gets you some kind of discount. I don't remember how much,

but any discount is good, right? Okay, so it's been kind of a while since we have talked about

something kind of exclusively Christian and biblical because there's been so much going on in

the news cycle that I want to make sure that y'all are in the know about, but today is the day.

And it's actually going to be a little theological and a little political as well. It's a problem

specifically that I'm seeing within the church and it started with a video that I saw of a

particular pastor that I really like. This will have political languages in it because it's a

political problem that I see within evangelical Christianity and that is kind of the use of

identity politics and this overtaking of progressivism. As far as I can tell, the Bible doesn't really

align with identity politics and a large portion of progressivism. That's why I think it's a problem.

That's why I think it is worth talking about. It is counterproductive to the spreading of the

message of Christ. And really what kind of set me off to this whole thing is because I watched a

video by Vice that is going to be shown on HBO about Matt Chandler in which he talks about the

problems within evangelicalism and two Christians are really called to be. And what I watched was

just a preview on Facebook of the longer documentary. I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but I will

so know that the judgments that I am about to articulate are not on the documentary as a whole.

I don't know everything Chandler says in the documentary, so I'm going to comment on what I heard,

knowing that editing happened, knowing that maybe there was context, but I'm going to comment on

what I heard. And then I'm going to just kind of use that as a springboard into the conversation that

I want to have about kind of leftism in the church. First, a little bit of background on that

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