Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
"If there's a fence there, it was probably put there for a very good reason."
Before you tear something down, ask why it was built. In this clip from the Good Faith Podcast, Pete Wehner — writer at The Atlantic and a former White House staffer — and host Curtis Chang make the case for taking tradition seriously. Not as a cage, but as inherited wisdom. Traditions can go wrong, and sometimes you do have to break with them, but you'd better have a good reason. And when it comes to categories like solidarity, subsidiarity, the preferential option for the poor, and the dignity of work, Catholic social teaching hands us a whole framework for how to think, not just where to land on a single issue.
Watch the full conversation, "When Protestant Curiosity Meets Catholic Wisdom with Pete Wehner," on the Good Faith channel.
#GoodFaith #PeteWehner #ChestertonsFence #Tradition #CatholicSocialTeaching #Christianity #Wisdom #CurtisChang #FaithAndPolitics #Subsidiarity #Christian #Shorts
"If there's a fence there, it was probably put there for a very good reason."
Before you tear something down, ask why it was built. In this clip from the Good Faith Podcast, Pete Wehner — writer at The Atlantic and a former White House staffer — and host Curtis Chang make the case for taking tradition seriously. Not as a cage, but as inherited wisdom. Traditions can go wrong, and sometimes you do have to break with them, but you'd better have a good reason. And when it comes to categories like solidarity, subsidiarity, the preferential option for the poor, and the dignity of work, Catholic social teaching hands us a whole framework for how to think, not just where to land on a single issue.
Watch the full conversation, "When Protestant Curiosity Meets Catholic Wisdom with Pete Wehner," on the Good Faith channel.
#GoodFaith #PeteWehner #ChestertonsFence #Tradition #CatholicSocialTeaching #Christianity #Wisdom #CurtisChang #FaithAndPolitics #Subsidiarity #Christian #Shorts
