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TONIGHT: Appearing on MSNBC’s The Week with Joshua Johnson

9:00 EDT / 8:00 CDT

Tune in to MSNBC tonight to see me discuss white evangelical decline & political polarization in the US:

TONIGHT: Tune in to .@TheWeekMSNBC with @NBCJoshua to hear me discuss white evangelical decline & political polarization in the US. 9:00 ET/8:00 CT. #exvangelical @exvangelicalpod
— Blake Chastain & The Beginning Stages of End Times (@brchastain) 7:01 PM ∙ Jul 18, 2021

I’ll have more to share later.

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