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Hi everyone! Kaitlyn, Skye, and Phil are recording a mailbag episode next week, and we'd love to use voicemail questions from patrons. This will be similar to what we did for episode 520.

Some general guidelines:

-  Please orient your questions around topics or news items from recent Holy Post episodes. Below are reminders of some recent discussions to get you thinking.

- Include your name and where you're from.

- The recording limit is 30 seconds. It may be helpful to write out your question in advance before recording.

Voicemail link: https://sayhi.chat/holypost

Deadline: This will be a quick turnaround! Please submit your questions by or on this coming Monday, November 14.

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Recent topics/discussions and their episode number:

- Faith and business with Joe Leininger (534)
- Political violence (534)
- Archeology and the Bible (533)
- Christians and mocking (533)
- Elon Musk's Twitter takeover (533)
- Sabbath with Ruth Haley Barton (533)
- Abortion abolitionism (Oct. French Friday)
- Ad campaigns for Jesus (532)
- Evangelical colleges and culture war issues (532)
- Culture warring with Mike Erre (532)
- Christian Nationalism with Paul D. Miller (531)

Comments

Evonne Harden

Phil suggested educational videos about theology. I would love to see a series on church history in the context of world history and American Christianity. Perhaps you could do something like that or encourage The Bible Project gentlemen to do something. I would also love a Christian history/theology reading list, perhaps compiled by Kaitlyn. I am one of your older listeners (65) but find myself mentoring several disillusioned millennials and a few people my age who fell prey to patriarchal ideologies and error, and sadly, while trying to avoid revisionist history (especially Americans history), I actually believed conservative publishers and taught said history. This grieves me. Fortunately, in spite of teaching such to my six children, they all know how to think and I learn much from them. They are all educated adults now with families of their own and are doing better than I did for them as I knew they would. But I could use some help. I love to study and read but I am older and don’t want to waste my time with the wrong sources. I have 16 grandchildren, ages 18 to 4. I know how influential a grandmother can be and I want to love them well with truth.

Marie Butson

This is less a question, and more background information about the rise of communism after what Phil greatly simplified as the situation during World War 2. “America First” was an isolationist policy during the early 1930’s and during WW2 that also had many German fascist friends of Hitler who had their tentacles in and throughout Congress. It was never as simple as America unified against German fascism 100%, but enough of a threat that the DOJ couldn’t fight the Senators, pro-German citizens and their defense lawyers that made the prosecution a 5-ring circus. Check out historian Bradley Hart’s “Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the US” . If you like a good story, listen to the podcast Rachel Maddow presents “ULTRA.” Politics aside, I’ve found Rachel knows how to tell a story that will have you on tinder hooks, wondering how it will end. She uses Hart as a reference but also did a massive amount of digging in the Library of Congress for this incredible 8-episode podcast. Politics (and sexuality) aside, she knows how to set a table and present a meaty meal, as in a narrative. I think you (as in all of you) might enjoy it and learn more about a rather quiet part of 1950’s national history.

Marie Butson

I recognize not everyone will appreciate the sources for this background. I’m 63, educated at a Chicago area seminary and believe all truth is God’s truth, wherever you find it. I’m not being political with this comment but offering a historical resource to fill out some of the facts of a unique time of our country’s history that I never learned about until recently because I have an interest in World War 2 and holocaust studies. We in the church have much to learn.