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One America Movement Summit
CCPL in the news.
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Faith and Public Life
Conversing | with Michael Wear
March 20, 2024
Michael Wear talks about the state of politics in the United States and the ways our faith is interwoven with public life.
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Spiritual Formation, Politics, & Public Life with Michael Wear
Denver Institute | The Faith & Work Podcast
April 5, 2024
What is the call of the Christian in this political moment? What do our politics reveal about us and our world?
Join us was we embark on a short series titled "Faith In Public Life." For this series we will explore themes related to politics, Christian imagination, and public life.
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The Spirit of Our Politics
A Mucky Business | Tim Farron & Michael Wear
April 23, 2024
Tim is joined this week by former White House advisor Michael Wear. Michael talks about his work as CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life and looks ahead to the US elections later this year.
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Flipping the Script on Faith and Politics
Liberty Magazine | Michael Wear
April 25, 2024
On what ground should the Christian stand in public life when Christianity is so often invoked for unchristian ends? In a time in which everything seems contestable, and the sacred so quickly turns profane, how should Christians approach politics?
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Care More for People Than Ideology
The Chronicle Of Philanthropy by Michael Wear
April 1. 2024
Philanthropy often seeks to influence people we do not love. That is dangerous.
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If We Don't Care About Character, We Get Bad Leaders
The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity | The Whole Life Podcast
April 1, 2024
It's not exactly a vintage time for politics in the West. Our prospective leaders either leave us apathetic or drive us into feral tribes.
Perhaps the reason we're left so cold or scared by so many of today's political class is that we've let the importance of character slip away from our political culture.
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Has Politics Poisoned Our Souls?
Religion News Service
March 21, 2024
Michael Wear challenges us to a more soulful politics that, gasp, takes Christianity seriously.
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Most Americans, Support Religion In Public Life, But Avoid Disagreements
Sojourners
March 22, 2024
A new report from Pew Research Center found that while most Americans think religion has a positive influence on American life, few are willing to have discussions about religious differences. Like many of us, Michael Wear isn’t surprised at these findings.
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Politics, Hypocrisy & Faith
Jude 3 Project
March 8, 2024
Join us as we explore the intricate dynamics between faith and politics, uncovering the pervasive issue of hypocrisy that plagues our political landscape.
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Politics is Penultimate With Michael Wear
Things Not Seen Podcast
March 3, 2024
Living at the intersection of faith and politics at the highest corridors of power? Here’s how to find balance in Things Not Seen.
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Reflections on Protests, People, and Pluralism
*Some Assembly Required by John Inazu
February 2, 2024
How do we move the center of gravity in Christian conversations about politics, particularly in the context of the local church, to that of the orientation of our hearts?
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Religious Conviction In American Culture
Faith Angle Podcast | Tim Alberta
January 23, 2024
A substantive conversation with Michael Wear one notch beneath the surface, drawing out how religious convictions manifest themselves in American culture and public life.
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Politics, Race and the Gospel, Period.
Footnotes with Jemar Tisby
January 29, 2024
In this conversation Tisby and Wear talk about everything from their similar conversion stories in evangelical contexts to how to engage people with radically different political persuasions.
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Giving The Last Word
Yale Center For Faith And Culture | Evan Rosa
Episode 172
In this conversation Michael reflects on what it means to seek the good of the public, political homelessness, bipartisan dissonance in our identity, and the virtue of gentleness.
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The Solution To Political Captivity
The Russell Moore Show
February 21, 2024
After all of the arguments and severed relationships that resulted from the elections of 2016 and 2020, here we are, doing it all over again. For all who are weary of the modern political climate, today’s episode with Michael Wear is for you.
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The Spirit Of Academia Meets The Spirit Of Our Politics. Your Faith Is The Answer.
The Wheaton Record
February 22, 2024
Michael Wear encouraged young Christians to look to their faith for answers about political issues.
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Can We Be Part Of A Better Way?
WAMC Northeast Public Radio by Joe Donahue
February 26, 2024
Michael offers a distinctly Christian approach to politics that results in healing rather than division, kindness rather than hatred, and hope rather than despair.
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Want Healthier Politics In The World? Start With Your Own Spiritual Life.
Propel Women | Michael Wear
March 1, 2024
Our politics desperately needs people who love their neighbor as themselves, and that requires putting on the character of Christ.
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This Lent, take up some practices that counter the worst of our politics
Religion News Service | By Michael Wear
February 14, 2023
Yes, we have to go through this presidential campaign season. Here’s a way to do it better.
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One Underrated Way to Enrich Your Christian Political Witness: Be a Better Christian
Christianity Today | By Matthew Loftus
January 24, 2024
BOOK REVIEW
Personal discipleship and spiritual formation are hardly irrelevant to the rough-and-tumble of public debate.
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The Surprising Link Between The Gospel and Politics
Relevant | By Michael Wear
January 23, 2024
Featured excerpt from The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life.
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Holy Post Podcast
Ep. 601
Holy Post Podcast
January 24, 2024
Kaitlyn sits down with Michael Wear to discuss his new book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life. He explains how he uses the teachings of Dallas Willard to talk about how Christians should engage in politics and what it would look like to place our politics under our spiritual formation.
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Engaging in Politics with Gentleness with Michael Wear
Episode 855
That Sounds Fun
January 22, 2024
Michael Wear is back on the pod to walk us through how to prep in prayer for this election year, being involved in politics without making it our identity, and telling us about the greatest kitchen tool ever made (does it have something to do with ravioli?…MAYBE).
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Michael Wear Wants Christians to Get More Political
Sojourners | By Josiah R. Daniels
January 23, 2024
This interview is part of The Reconstruct, a weekly newsletter from Sojourners. In a world where so much needs to change, Mitchell Atencio and Josiah R. Daniels interview people who have faith in a new future and are working toward repair.
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The Spirit of Our Politics
Conversatio Divina | Michael Wear & Michael DiFuccia
January 18, 2024
In the latest installment of our “Spiritual Formation in Context” series Michael Wear and Michael Di Fuccia, Director of the Cultura Fellowship, discuss the Willardian themes and influence in Michael’s book and how they’ve come to shape his vision for a more gentler and persuasive Christian politic.
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The Spirit of Our Politics: An Interview with Michael Wear
The Church Politics Podcast
January 18, 2024
This week on the podcast, we're bringing back co-host Michael Wear to talk about his new book "The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life".
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It All Comes Down to Faith, Hope, and Love
Office of Citizen, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE)
Dec 14, 2023
This essay was adapted from remarks delivered by Michael Wear at the Faith and Democracy Summit–a summative convening for Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement’s Faith In/And Democracy initiative held in Phoenix on November 28, 2023.
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New award honors Tim Keller and Sister Norma Pimentel for civic renewal
Religion News Service | By Jack Jenkins
October 11, 2023
A new group plans to honor the Rev. Timothy Keller, an evangelical Christian theologian who died earlier this year, and Catholic nun Sister Norma Pimentel, known for her work with migrants.
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Restoring Our Political Witness
S5 E12
Pastor Theologians Podcast
June 5, 2023
Michael was featured on the Pastor Theologians Podcast talking about restoring our political witness. The pastor theologians podcast consists of conversations and teaching resources at the intersection of theological scholarship and life and ministry in the local church.
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The Surprise of Tim Keller
Comment Magazine
May 22, 2023
Tim Keller, a pastor theologian who was one of the great American evangelists of his time, died on Friday morning, May 19, with his wife, Kathy, by his side. He was an imperfect man, as both he and his theology would demand I point out, but faithfulness pervaded his life.
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America’s Brash Grandiosity
Christianity Today
January 30, 2023
This essay was originally commissioned for a private convening of British and American Christian leaders organized by The Center for Christianity and Public Life and the UK-based Faith in Public.
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Rethinking Heaven, the Harrowing of Hell, & Christian Civics with Michael Wear
EPISODE 541
The Holy Post Podcast | Interview By Kaitlyn Schiess
December 28, 2022
Michael was featured on the Pastor Theologians Podcast talking about restoring our political witness. The pastor theologians podcast consists of conversations and teaching resources at the intersection of theological scholarship and life and ministry in the local church.
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This is Not the Most Important Election of Our Lives
Christianity Today | Interview By Daniel Silliman
October 25, 2022
Michael Wear, founder of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, on the state of American politics, what’s at stake in the midterms, and the temptation to “ultimatize” our issues.
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Links: Catholicism in The New York Times; swing state midterms; Sukkot
National Catholic Reporter | By Michael Sean Winters
October 20, 2022
Welcome to The Center for Christianity & Public Life, which launched this week with a short video. The organization is founded by former Obama faith-based advisor Michael Wear, one of D.C.’s truly lovely people. I wish it the best as it seeks to be a voice of sanity and morality in our nation’s capital.
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POLITICO Playbook
Politico | By Ryan Lizza And Eugene Daniel
October 18, 2022
Michael Wear has launched The Center for Christianity and Public Life, a new nonpartisan nonprofit, with chief of staff Phebe Meyer.
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American Idol: How Politics Replaced Spiritual Practice
Christianity Today | by Michael Wear
October 18, 2022
Christian formation is central to civic renewal, not the other way around.
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Michael Wear Launches the Center for Christianity and Public Life
Millennial Journal
October 18, 2022
At Christianity Today, our 2017 Millennial of the Year, Michael Wear, writes: These convictions ground The Center for Christianity and Public Life, a new nonpartisan institution based in the nation’s capital that I, along with our board and staff, have launched this week.
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Former Obama faith adviser launches Christian political organization
Yahoo News | By Jon Ward
October 18, 2022
At 34 years old, Michael Wear has already been a faith adviser to an American president, written two books and developed a reputation as a thoughtful and connected leader in American politics and religion.