Why is Christmas still the high point of the secular calendar year? Why does it remain so embedded within the cultural imagination? Perhaps because Christmas is the clearest public manifestation of "Christendom" that there ever was. What is at stake when the Christianity of Christmas is gradually minimised? Is it something worth fighting for? With secularism and Islam encroaching in the West today, seemingly innocuous Christmas traditions may matter more than ever. The Church of England o...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast One of the paradoxes of evangelical history is the tension between cultural excellence and religious piety. We have often been suspicious of aesthetic excellence, opting instead for simplicity and heart-level devotional experience. Why does Scripture instruct us to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs? Does God care about how melodic the music is, or are such concerns an inevitable heart distraction from true worship? In this episode, Aaron sits down with special guest, Chris Horn, a trained ...
Dec 05, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast For decades, western Christians have sought to build bridges to the socio-political Left. They have sought to understand where such people are coming from and to “engage” with them, even where their beliefs have been sub-Christian. Yet this approach is not applied to men on the socio-political Right. Is this because they fear association with social deplorables? How should Christians reach men on the right today? What are the dangers? What are the consequences of shutting out the you...
Nov 28, 2024•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Donald Trump winning the American presidential election for a second time appears to be yet another pivotal moment in western civilisation today. How should Christians interpret it? How have evangelicals changed their views of Trump over the last decade, and why are British people often so repulsed by him? What do the reactions to Trump tell us about the extent to which people are fed up of Leftist elitism within the culture? If one of the keys to Trump’s success was reaching disenfranchis...
Nov 09, 2024•2 hr 51 min•Transcript available on Metacast How does the way our churches run their meetings disciple us over time? Are there some styles or forms of a worship service which produce certain effects over time? Why, for example, is choral evensong so beautiful and yet (in the UK at least) often populated by so few faith-filled people, and led by so many faithless people? Is band-led singing a "better" form than high Church liturgy? What do you lose (or gain?) when you don't allow for congregational spontaneity within church services? And ho...
Sep 09, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we talk about the impact of multiculturalism on British (and western) culture; the rise of globalism; The Strange Death of Europe, and the mission of the Church. Too few Christians today are aware of the societal disruption caused when the liberal ideology of multiculturalism is imposed on a culture with the assumption that contradictory worldviews can harmonise (whilst eroding the dominant culture) without significant unrest. Instead, Christians often assume that multiculturalis...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Tom, Aaron, and Nathan discuss the relationship between men and work - working to create a Christian culture, a 'theology of vocation', and the need for a restored sense of the dignity of trades. What we got into... Multiculturalism Employment Corporate despair Business Work ethic Bureaucracy Marxism Universities Trades Working classes Masculinity Idiocy Pointless meetings The Office Academia The trades Virtue Hierarchy Ideology Industry Technocracy Entrepreneurs Networking Opportunism Worship M...
Aug 10, 2024•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this one Aaron and Nathan introduce the third gent to the table... Tom Chaldecott. We talk about things like Gospel minimalism, how business & engineering fits into the kingdom of God, and why men who confront problems (rather than avoid them) usually don't get on too well in evangelical churches post-COVID. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might Defy the devil and act like men Love the brotherhood Fear God Christ is Lord God save the king......
Jul 24, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Western masculinity is in crisis, and the modern Church is part of the problem. Rather than proclaiming ‘muscular Christianity’ the Church has often effeminised men and joined the feminist chorus lambasting manly virtues as “toxic masculinity”. Why has the Church been so reluctant to call men to “act like men” (1Cor. 16:13)? How do we respond both to the effeminate Christianity which over-emphasises gentle meekness and the non-Christian ‘manospher...
Jul 08, 2024•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast How should Christians think about their nation? Is patriotism inevitably idolatrous? Whilst modern Christians have many reasons for being cautious of nationalistic fervour, few are aware of the reverse problem. Many westerners today are taught to be embarrassed by their national heritage and culture, leading to significant cultural decay. This affects not only national cultures but also local family and folk cultures, which risk becoming evermore obsolete as the West becomes more uniformly globa...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast That Good Fight **SPECIAL EPISODE** - on Aaron's Week in Court In this special episode of That Good Fight we talk about Aaron's recent employment tribunal with the evangelical Bible college that infamously fired him for a tweet challenging the increasing acceptance of homosexuality in the Church. Aaron recounts his story and elaborates on some of the details he was previously unable to disclose about the case. Alongside Nathan and Tom, he discusses the lessons that might be learned from the expe...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Transcript available on Metacast What Does It Mean To Be Christendomian? Many evangelicals have been taught that to care too much about wider issues of culture, politics, and society, would be a distraction from the Gospel. But even if forms of "social action" have often been a worldly preoccupation for liberals, evangelicals dismiss the call for societal transformation at their peril. Refusing to be salt and light in the world will eventually come back to haunt the Church in the end. While there are certainly some negative byp...
May 28, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast What was the Reformation and why does it matter? In this episode, Nathan and Aaron discuss when church authorities can and should be challenged in light of the authority of Scripture. Whilst some see the Reformation as sacred and the Reformers almost like venerated saints, others see it as a heresy that undermined the Church and introduced liberalism. But how can we think about applying the spirit of the Reformation to the wider Church today? What are the "traditions" that ...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast What is an "evangelical" and why should we care? Here's some of what we got into: Emerging Church apostates Exvangelical deconstruction TGC-centredness Compromise & cowardice Defence, offence, proclamation Given the increasingly broad amount of people who now use that term, should we ditch it altogether? Aaron and Nathan talk through some of their own story as evangelicals over the last two decades, including the influence of various movements that have arisen within evangelicalism in t...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast A new podcast from 'That Good Fight' - a Reformation for Gentlemen. Featuring Aaron Edwards (@aaron_p_edwards), Tom Chaldecott (@TomChaldecott), and Nathan Paylor (@nathanpaylor). This first episode is a “teaser” introducing the key themes around which we’ll be circling, focussed on what it means to being evangelical, reformational, Christendomian, patriotic, and gentlemanly. At a time in which the evangelical establishment is compromised, Christendom’s legacy i...
Apr 27, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
