At least 25,000 people turned out for tea party protests across the country today, according to the Atlantic, and groups like Focus on the Family Action, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and the American Family Association helped promote the demonstrations.
This week on The Bulletin, host Russell Moore flies solo while Mike Cosper is in Israel and Nicole Martin is away preaching. The conversation continues with lively engagement around bad behavior and how we can apply all of the gospel to the darker corners of our lives—our unhealthy addiction to pornography, our tendency toward argumentation, and our lackluster support for a truly whole life pro-life ethic. Special guests include Sam Black of Covenant Eyes, Rick Kardos of The Nathan Project, CT’s new political correspondent Harvest Prude, and attorney Kelly Rosati.
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Joining us this week:
Sam Black is a renowned author and expert in the field of pornography recovery. As the director of recovery education at Covenant Eyes, he brings a wealth of experience to his work, having joined the organization in 2007 after a distinguished 18-year career as an award-winning journalist. Sam is the author of two groundbreaking books: The Healing Church: What Churches Get Wrong About Pornography and How to Fix It and The Porn Circuit: Understand Your Brain and Break Porn Habits. He has also edited 16 other books on the impact of pornography and regularly speaks at parenting, leadership, and men’s events across the country. Sam’s deep knowledge and compassionate approach have helped countless individuals and families find healing and hope.
Rick Kardos is the founder and executive director of The Nathan Project, a ministry providing hope, leadership training, and a place of recovery for men who struggle with the compulsive use of pornography and sexual addiction, the spouses and ex-spouses of these men, and the families trapped in the menacing cycle of addiction. Rick is a certified pastoral sexual addiction specialist through AACSAS and a trained Genesis counselor through Michael Dye’s Genesis Process Program. Through The Nathan Project, he builds and oversees For Men Only (FMO) small groups from Pure Desire Ministries International.
Harvest Prude is a CT’s national political correspondent and a congressional reporter based in Washington, DC. She is a former reporter for The Dispatch and World magazine, having served there as political reporter for their Washington bureau.
Kelly Rosati is the CEO of KMR Consulting. Rosati’s firm offers clients innovative, practical insights and action steps to achieve their strategic goals in communications and community and government relations. Prior to this role, Rosati was the vice president of community outreach for the organization Focus on the Family, where she served as the ministry spokesperson on child advocacy issues. Rosati received her undergraduate degree from Marquette University and graduated cum laude from the University of Nebraska College of Law. Rosati and her husband have been married since 1991 and live with their four children in Monument, Colorado.
Resources Referenced:
Covenant Eyes
PureHOPE
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The tea parties were initially promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington, but Christian conservative groups quickly latched on.
CitizenLink: “The mainstream media largely have ignored the nationwide protests, even as Congress loads pork projects and stimulus bills on the backs of American taxpayers and their children.”
Tony Perkins: “There is no justification for the countless billions that citizens will have to pony up this tax season to fund liberalism’s reckless abuse of the federal treasury.”
“The religious right’s support for the Tea Parties is a partisan exercise, not a religious one. It will not help their cause,” Dan at the left-leaning Faith in Public Life writes.
What do you think? Would you participate in the tea party ritual?
