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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries.\n\u201cWas the US never really a \u201cChristian country,\u201d or was US Christianity corrupted by politics?\u201dThat\u2019s the question that Kylie Beach, a writer for the Australian-based Eternity News asked several days after the capitol insurrection and several days before last week\u2019s presidential inauguration. She continued:\nDid the US only ever appear to be more Christian than other countries, or was its Christianity corrupted by politics? To put it frankly, are the people who declare themselves to be Christians in the US really just \u2018cultural Christians\u2019 \u2013 people who are ethnically descended from nations where Christianity was the primary religion? Or people who have taken on the outward form of their grandparent\u2019s faith? Have they ever actually had a moment of conversion where they have decided to accept Christ as their Lord and Saviour? Do they read their Bibles to try to learn what God is like? Do they pray and listen for his direction?\nBeach isn\u2019t the only Christian from around the world asking what to make of US evangelicals after Trump. At the UK\u2019s Evangelical Alliance CEO Gavin Calver wrote a column for the Times with the headline, "Let us redefine evangelism after the Trump presidency." He wrote that the word evangelical has become politicized and toxic even in the UK because of Trump politics.\nRen\xe9 Breuel is the pastor of Hopera, an evangelical church in Rome and has served as a student leader in International Fellowship of Evangelical Students movements in Brazil, Germany, Canada, and Italy. He is also the author of The Paradox of Happiness.\nBreuel joined global media manager Morgan Lee and editorial director Ted Olsen to discuss how non-US evangelicals saw American evangelicals before Trump, what has changed over the past four years, and what American evangelicals who want to regain this trust must do moving forward.\nWhat is Quick to Listen? Read more\nRate Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts\nFollow the podcast on Twitter\nFollow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsen\nFollow our guest on Twitter: Ren\xe9 Breuel\nMusic by Sweeps\nQuick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder\nThe transcript is edited by Yvonne Su and Bunmi Ishola\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices