{"id":17972,"date":"2025-08-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/podcast\/refining-rhetoric-from-pews-to-polls-mobilizing-americas-sleeping-giant\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:00:00","slug":"refining-rhetoric-from-pews-to-polls-mobilizing-americas-sleeping-giant","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/classicalconversations.com\/podcast\/refining-rhetoric-from-pews-to-polls-mobilizing-americas-sleeping-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Refining Rhetoric: From Pews to Polls: Mobilizing America’s Sleeping Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"

What if the biggest threat to Christian values in America isn’t hostile politicians\u2014but Christians who refuse to vote? Bunni Pounds drops a bombshell statistic that will shake you: Christians are registering and voting at exactly the same rates as the general population. That means roughly half of Bible-believing Americans are voluntarily sitting out the very process that determines who governs their communities.<\/p>\n

While faithful Christians stay home on election day, secular activists are showing up in droves to elect school board members who push gender ideology, city council members who restrict religious freedom, and county officials who shut down churches. We’re literally handing over our nation to people whose worldview is diametrically opposed to Scripture\u2014and then wondering why our culture is falling apart.<\/p>\n

Bunni’s journey from homeschool mom to political consultant to mobilizing nearly a million Christians reveals the stunning power of engaged believers and the devastating consequences of Christian apathy.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.bunnipounds.com\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/christiansengaged.org\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.americareadsthebible.com\/<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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