{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcast.edstetzer.com%2Fepisodes%2Fjohn-dickson-christians-need-to-learn-to-lose-well-lQsyMX0A","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"John Dickson: Christians Need to Learn to Lose Well","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7c8e14e6-69fa-45b7-ad44-531ec8f8bb9c/971510b8-50f3-410c-8281-d8b73291674b/cropped_1790702129899.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"John Dickson argues Christians with cultural power should persuade with gentleness and learn to lose well when the vote goes against them.\n\nRecorded at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, the conversation opens with secularization in Australia, Britain, and the United States, where Dickson expects irreligion to grow angrier even as interest in Christianity revives, and he reads recent upticks in church attendance as nominal Christianity bottoming out. Ed presses him on two points where they disagree: Dickson's objection to the word \"apologist\" and his claim that the primary sources do not support Michael Green's picture of early Christians gossiping the gospel. Dickson describes a church that grew through catechesis, prayer, godly lives, and generosity, and draws on his book Bullies and Saints to argue that Christian history shows its bullies alongside a built-in habit of repentance.\n\nJohn Dickson is the Jean Kvamme Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Scholar in Public Christianity at Wheaton College, host of the Undeceptions podcast, and author of more than 20 books, including Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History. An ordained Anglican and historian of the ancient world, he founded Australia's Centre for Public Christianity in 2007."}