Candidate for House of Representatives, Anita Chen joins the Live Faith First podcast. Anita has a refreshingly compassionate platform which grew out of her time as a teacher in Santa Clara County. She would tell her students that they should stand-up for what they think is right, and help to protect those in society that needed a system of protection around them. Her message sank in so much that when she realized there were people in our society that did not have sufficient resources and protection, she had to do something. She chose to run for House of Representatives to make a national difference from Washington, D.C.

As we continue our Love, Respect and Kindness (LRK) series of the Live Faith First podcast, we invited Anita because she has a unique perspective on how she chooses to act in the midst of political opposition. Rather than resorting to mudslinging and contempt, she chooses a path that will speak about the issues, but not use ad hominem arguments to bring the person down. She’s choosing to stay on task about the issues, and not make it about the person. We thought it was important to bring an alternative view that avoids political polarization, and instead stays focused on the larger issues in our society.

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Kaitlyn Schiess joins the podcast to discuss politics and the church, especially how should Christians engage with the political system. It’s a relevant topic as we discuss historical and present day approaches with an eye for how discipleship informs our political convictions.

Kaitlyn is a writer, an author, and a doctoral student at Duke Divinity School studying political theology, ethics, and biblical interpretation. She graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 2021 with a ThM in systematic theology.

Kaitlyn is the author of The Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here (released with Brazos Press in August 2023) and The Liturgy of Politics: Spiritual Formation for the Sake of Our Neighbor (released with InterVarsity Press in September 2020).

She has written about theology, politics, and culture at places like Christianity Today, The New York Times, Christ and Pop Culture, CT Women, RELEVANT, Sojourners, Fathom, and the Christian Research Journal. She has also contributed some thoughts to this New York Times piece and this HuffPost piece. She wrote a chapter about political theology, Augustine, and conspiracy theories for an Eerdmans book, QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross, that released in May 2023.

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Dr. Gayle Beebe is the President of Westmont College and the author of The Crucibles that Shape Us. In his time at Westmont College he has navigated crucibles like wildfires on campus, deadly landslides in their community, COVID-19 restrictions, and their student’s response to the George Floyd murder, amongst other things. In those crucibles, Dr. Beebe has grown as a person and a leader, and he brings those learning to this podcast episode.

Gayle D. Beebe (MBA and PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is president of Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. He is also the author of The Shaping of an Effective Leader and is the coauthor of Longing for God with Richard J. Foster.

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