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Evangelicals and Human Rights | Lauren Turek

Lauren Turek May 10, 2021

In this episode, historian Lauren Turek, associate professor at Trinity University, joins Dan to discuss her recent book, To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations (Cornell, 2020). They discuss the rise of organized evangelical human rights activism beginning in the 1970s and explore the complicated and surprising relationship of the activism to U.S. foreign relations. For more on Lauren see her personal website. Finally, see this roundtable review of Lauren’s book, to which Dan contributed.

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