James Talarico, ‘Christ is King,’ and the War for American Christians | Weds LIVE Ep. 29

Evangelicals voted 82-17 for Trump in 2024, made up 27% of the electorate, and provided the decisive single-bloc margin in the national vote — for the third consecutive election. Without them, the Left wins. But American evangelicalism is under attack from every direction. The Left is trying to co-opt it — Hillary Clinton in The Atlantic, Andy Beshear laundering leftism through Bible Belt language, and Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico telling Joe Rogan's audience that God supports abortion and is nonbinary. The dissident right's "Christ is King" movement is trying to fracture it from within. And decades of seeker-sensitive church culture have left millions of Christians biblically illiterate — easy targets for all of the above. Can traditional American evangelicalism survive? And can this essential voting bloc hold together? That's tonight's question. Joining Jeremy tonight: Allie Beth Stuckey — host of Relatable, New York Times bestselling author of Toxic Empathy, and the person Hillary Clinton spent six thousand words attacking by name. David Limbaugh — lawyer, nationally syndicated columnist, author of ten NYT bestsellers, five of which are on Christian apologetics, including Jesus on Trial. And Frank Turek — founder of CrossExamined.org, author of I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist — a man who came to evangelical Christianity from Catholicism through the power of evidence, and who's been carrying that evidence onto hostile college campuses for more than thirty years. 00:00 – James Talarico and the Weaponization of Christianity 10:30 – Should Christians Vote on Character or Policy? 18:47 – Trump, Evangelicals, and the Hypocrisy Charge 27:33 – Love vs. Approval: Has the Right Lost Its Witness? 44:11 – Catholics, Evangelicals, and Coalition Politics 1:04:42 – Why Young People Are Leaving Evangelicalism for Catholicism 1:17:05 – Sola Scriptura vs. the Magisterium 1:32:29 – Mormons, Muslims, and Who Can Be Saved 1:51:00 – The Demonic Battle After Charlie Kirk's Murder 2:21:10 – What Christians Owe This Moment: The Truth of the Gospel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices