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Voice Over Exit: Aaron Renn on Re-Building Protestant Institutions in the Negative World

Voice Over Exit: Aaron Renn on Re-Building Protestant Institutions in the Negative World

Update: 2025-08-11
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Aaron Renn from ​⁠@TheAaronRennShow joins Christian Baxter to chart a post-Keller, post-Driscoll landscape. We dissect Renn’s Negative World thesis, his call to “use your voice, not the exit,” why Redeemed Zoomer’s “Silicon-Valley-tier ambition” ruffles feathers, and how America’s reflex to exit rather than reform shapes churches, cities, and schools.





Key topics:


• Why the Young-Restless-Reformed moment cooled off


• Mainline “Operation Reconquista” vs. endless schisms


• Masculinity, the Manosphere, and evangelical blind spots


• Act 60 school consolidation, civic health, & rural revitalization


• Jordan Peterson “eating the church’s lunch” and what pastors can learn





Chapters


00:00 Intro & Renn bio


05:12 Young-Restless-Reformed post-mortem


17:45 Voice vs Exit—Hirschman’s frame


32:10 Redeemed Zoomer & Reconquista playbook


44:55 Masculinity, servant-leadership reconsidered


56:40 Jordan Peterson, AI trust & digital frontiers


1:08:15 Rural schools, Act 60 & civic renewal


1:19:00 Hope index for 2050


1:25:40 Rapid-fire close & resources


(adjust timecodes once final edit is locked)





Mentioned: Tim Keller, Mark Driscoll, Redeemed Zoomer, Jordan Peterson, Paul VanderKlay, Bethel McGrew, Albert Hirschman.





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• Substack: https://substack.com/@christianbaxteryt?r=433pnb&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile


• Twitter/X: https://x.com/chrbaxter_yt?s=21


• Guest: https://www.aaronrenn.com | Life in the Negative World





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Voice Over Exit: Aaron Renn on Re-Building Protestant Institutions in the Negative World

Voice Over Exit: Aaron Renn on Re-Building Protestant Institutions in the Negative World

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