Episode Details

Holy Wars — Show Notes: Fight Laugh Feast Documentary

In this Fight Laugh Feast documentary, CrossPolitic traces the inescapable question of holiness from Moses at the burning bush through the Great Awakenings, the Crusades, and into the present culture war — arguing that holiness is not private sentiment but public, world-transforming fire. Featuring historical and theological commentary from Joe Boot and others, the documentary confronts counterfeit holiness in both secular activism and charismatic revivalism, and calls Christians to fight a holy war with the weapons God has actually given them: his Word, his Spirit, and his people.

Timestamps

0:00 — Intro — Moses, the burning bush, and the holy ground that launched a nation

0:43 — How we've privatized holiness — and who filled the public square when we did

1:53 — Holiness is inescapable: not whether, but which

3:06 — The First Great Awakening — Edwards, justification by faith, and national cohesion

4:14 — From holy ground to holy war: how the Great Awakening built the War for Independence

5:46 — The Second Great Awakening — emotionalism, manipulation, cults, and cultural chaos

9:25 — Activism fills the vacuum — and the turn toward natural law and raw political power

11:03 — Sponsor: Patriot Mobile

12:22 — What holiness actually is: the fiery presence of the triune God

14:36 — Creation, the Fall, sacrifice, and the way back into God's presence

18:44 — Golgotha — the curtain torn, the fire unleashed, we are holy ground

21:38 — Is actual war holy? Just war theory: Augustine, Aquinas, and the Reformers

23:24 — The Black-Robed Regiment, the lesser magistrate, and the War for Independence

27:43 — The Crusades — were they just wars? Separating the first, fourth, seventh, and eighth

31:20 — Counterfeit holiness: BLM as pilgrimage, anti-racism as penance, revivalism as emotional currency

34:20 — The question before this generation: Christ's finished holiness or substitutes that leave ash

34:45 — Fight Laugh Feast 2026: Holy Wars — speakers, theme, and why we're gathering

36:18 — We are that bush — holy war in family, church, and state until the earth is full of his glory

43:46 — Deus vult — God wills it. He always has. He is doing it.

Fight Laugh Feast 2026: Holy Wars

Join us October 1–3 in Franklin, Tennessee for the Fight Laugh Feast Conference. This year's theme mirrors the documentary: Holy Wars — Just War, the Crusades, and the Christian Life. Featuring Doug Wilson, Joe Boot, George Grant, Jared Longshore, Joe Rigney, Ben Merkel, and the CrossPolitic crew. Early Bird pricing ends July 1st — we're nearly halfway sold out.

Tickets: https://tickets.flfnetwork.com/holy-wars-conference

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