matt intro chapter
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0:00अध्याय 1: I hope Matthew Scobin and his entire family are gang-raged by illegal immigrants and left in the street to die. 129s · Speaker 1
I hope Matthew Scobin and his entire family are gang-raged by illegal immigrants and left in the street to die. That was the text of one of the letters that Hope College received on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. That day saw the highest am…
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Who stationed a police officer outside of me, standing in God all day. Although this was probably a necessary letter, after all, was more a wish than a threat.
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3:20अध्याय 3: But as far as I know, I weren't getting the actual credible threats made against me that day. 99s · Speaker 1
But as far as I know, I weren't getting the actual credible threats made against me that day. Still, I was grateful for the police, I was cautious, especially since I was traveling that day. But my wife, Sarah, and our three kids, Sophie, L…
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5:13अध्याय 4: For my own part, I didn't feel capable of shrugging it off quite so easily. 60s · Speaker 2
For my own part, I didn't feel capable of shrugging it off quite so easily. The immediate cause of all the unwanted attention was an article published the day before, titled Hope College, The Downfall of a Grecian Institution. The article a…
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6:13अध्याय 5: of, but which plenty of other people apparently had. 66s · Speaker 3
of, but which plenty of other people apparently had. At the time, the website had three million followers on Facebook, and the article about
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our little Christian liberal arts college on the shores of Lake Michigan came as soon as it was published, the most popular article on the site overall for several days. I don't know why some posts go viral and others don't. All I know is t…
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12:44अध्याय 7: For my own part, I can say that I look forward to neither of these things. 209s · Speaker 1
For my own part, I can say that I look forward to neither of these things. I don't want to fight alongside Ms. Vornell, because I don't want the war she is waging. I don't believe in the war she is waging. I don't want to fight against her …
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16:33अध्याय 8: college, college which was conservative and Christian, is now going secular and liberal, and it's been lost to the world mind virus. 315s · Speaker 3
college, college which was conservative and Christian, is now going secular and liberal, and it's been lost to the world mind virus. This was a force used to me and left me shaking my head incredulous at how much times have changed. Growing…
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21:54अध्याय 9: My views on economic policy have certainly mellowed and become more nuanced with age, but I'm still a free market guy deep down. 141s · Speaker 1
My views on economic policy have certainly mellowed and become more nuanced with age, but I'm still a free market guy deep down. I now see Reagan's overall legacy as being more mixed, but I can't escape. But it still feels true to me that i…
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24:50अध्याय 10: Three order paragraphs. 300s · Speaker 2
Three order paragraphs. For more than just boyhood attachments, they matured with me and gave shape to my ambitions. Political activism had been a prominent part of college life in the United States during the 1960s and 70s. But by the 1990…
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29:50अध्याय 11: Good-bye. 83s · Speaker 1
Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye. Transcription by CastingWords and managed a state congressional campaign which I won. I was selected as a White House intern in the George W. Bush White House administration. After graduation, my first two paid…
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31:48अध्याय 12: I eventually ended up in New York working for the New York Stock Exchange. 308s · Speaker 2
I eventually ended up in New York working for the New York Stock Exchange. Throughout this time, I continued to feel like I was often the most conservative person in every room. My favorite article every week was Peggy Noonan's column in th…
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37:03अध्याय 13: This is a story worth telling in its own right. 326s · Speaker 1
This is a story worth telling in its own right. One which I'll revisit in a later chapter of the book. But for now, I'm only bringing it up for the sake of providing some necessary context. In order to understand the conservative backlash t…
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whereas others saw the marketing advantages immediately and immediately began substituting evangelical for fundamentalist and all of their materials. Regardless, this is the first type of Christian college in the United States today, one wh…
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48:10अध्याय 15: As of the 1980s, it looked very much to be heading in the Baylor direction, if not worse. 109s · Speaker 2
As of the 1980s, it looked very much to be heading in the Baylor direction, if not worse. What makes Baylor unique is that it hasn't gone all the way. Most schools on a similar trajectory end up dropping their Christian identity altogether,…
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50:20अध्याय 16: absolutely transforming my life. 78s · Speaker 3
absolutely transforming my life. During those years, Leighton was experiencing what is known in Evangelical War as a revival. This term has been given many
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51:40अध्याय 17: definitions through centuries, but for our purposes, it's best to think of a revival as a sudden uptick in religious fervor on a heart level. 114s · Speaker 1
definitions through centuries, but for our purposes, it's best to think of a revival as a sudden uptick in religious fervor on a heart level. Revival doesn't mean books or sermons or treatises. It means more songs or confessions or tears. E…
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auditorium, told hundreds of strangers the temptation they had been struggling with, asked for forgiveness, and invited God to cleanse them of their sin. A month later, the whole can you proceed to flame. that suddenly God previously was su…
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58:53अध्याय 19: but it's not mandatory. 66s · Speaker 1
but it's not mandatory. Whereas, at most evangelical schools, chapel attendance is required. Likewise, evangelical schools usually require a student to stay in effect. You cannot enroll at all unless you profess to be a Christian before a t…
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1:00:00अध्याय 20: There was no statement of faith requirement for students to sign, and chapel attendance was optional. 79s · Speaker 4
There was no statement of faith requirement for students to sign, and chapel attendance was optional. Thus, at a school of 4,000 undergraduates with a chapel that could fit around 1,000 people, there were usually only a dozen or two that sh…
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1:01:20अध्याय 21: had been far less from the just to begin with. 147s · Speaker 2
had been far less from the just to begin with. It's one thing to witness the effects of the revival at Evangelical School, where people may sing louder and longer than before, but chapel attendance remains the same. It's quite another thing…
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conservative Christians and secular liberals, conservative Evangelicals versus non-Evangelical Christians who, to their detractors, look like nothing more than secular liberals. That's a lot of backstory, but it's important to understand al…
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1:04:55अध्याय 23: where I fit into the mix. 300s · Speaker 1
where I fit into the mix. Now we want to imagine in theерaters too much. Your You I had been hired by the Ben Patterson crowd, specifically for the purpose of taking college in a Ben Patterson direction. My predecessor had been pushed out f…
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The recent OK, so we won't be Arab consequences, but we're not clear. Our task was on the right hand. I mean, it was great. Well, it was clear. Now, of course, our mission is to support us that we can get into the 19th National Convention w…
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1:15:00अध्याय 25: campolo and cider this term is not evangelism it's a christian school in the baylor but campolo and cider were very much… 126s · Speaker 1
campolo and cider this term is not evangelism it's a christian school in the baylor but campolo and cider were very much a part of the evangelical both their theology as well as their personal networks they hung out at with the evangelicals…
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1:17:06अध्याय 26: their case but didn't make much of a dent but they were considered evangelicals nonetheless they were considered part of… 304s · Speaker 2
their case but didn't make much of a dent but they were considered evangelicals nonetheless they were considered part of us while that recent history is worth reviewing for several reasons one of which we get to later there is no such thing…
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desire to submit to him to live my life in the word answer his will to offer my life as an offering of grace to him at least that's how i would have put it in my heart assaulted prophets but how does this seal get translated into real life …
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1:27:37अध्याय 28: That's why they hired me. 294s · Speaker 1
That's why they hired me. Not in spite of my conservative evangelical credentials, but because of them. They hired me to take the school in conservative evangelical direction. Not quite fundamentalist. Definitely leading more that way. This…
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1:32:38अध्याय 29: and was always a bit scared of getting in trouble for saying Jesus or the Holy Spirit. 170s · Speaker 1
and was always a bit scared of getting in trouble for saying Jesus or the Holy Spirit. too many times. That's how things were. That's where things stood. But that was before the world lost its mind. That's how I thought things would stay. I…
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what caught the court's attention was the specific vision i had the school's future vision which i believe was given to me by god i'll tell that whole story in a later chapter but for now you don't need to believe that it came from god beca…
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1:40:39अध्याय 31: see if I did make sense of why such a proposal might be something that I want to focus on. 96s · Speaker 1
see if I did make sense of why such a proposal might be something that I want to focus on. And what I discovered... was surprising to say the least. Because my entire career had been related to finance in one way or another, I was pretty in…
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1:42:15अध्याय 32: So when I decided to apply for the whole presidency, I began digging into these metrics at colleges 85s · Speaker 2
So when I decided to apply for the whole presidency, I began digging into these metrics at colleges
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and universities, trying to get a sense of the overall business model. So instead, I was met with a discovery I would have never expected. Higher education was a single share for exceptions to this ultra-aliened institutions with massive in…
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1:49:12अध्याय 34: loans. In order to assess the likelihood that the borrower would pay in full. 311s · Speaker 2
loans. In order to assess the likelihood that the borrower would pay in full. But this led to loans being hard to come by. do you want to lend a thousand dollars to an 18-year-old against them so the federal government started at first they…
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direct loan program gradually eliminated virtually every requirement for qualifying for loan there was no eventually As requirements continue to be eliminated, as limits continue to increase, getting a federal loan for the full amount of yo…
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So, banks have to know how to tell a good loan from a bad one. If they wouldn't, they'd go out of business. But in the federal government's case, because the direct loans were such a small percentage of the federal budget overall, and becau…
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2:01:53अध्याय 37: I mean, they kept raising prices out of a sense of necessity to balance their own budgets. 308s · Speaker 1
I mean, they kept raising prices out of a sense of necessity to balance their own budgets. The reason their own budgets had loomed so significantly is a separate and more complicated issue. But for now, suffice it to say that colleges were …
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2:07:01अध्याय 38: they charge tuition so high that students can't pay it, then I guess we'll just have to pay it. 90s · Speaker 1
they charge tuition so high that students can't pay it, then I guess we'll just have to pay it. This system had been in operation for decades and seemed to be working just fine. But as I took a closer look at it, it wasn't hard to see that …
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2:08:31अध्याय 39: would rise a bit higher. 63s · Speaker 2
would rise a bit higher. At which point, direct law program would become politically untenable.
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It looked to me like the whole thing was about to come crashing down. But what could be done about it? That's where pay it forward tuition comes. I'm sorry.