# 004. How Politics Shapes Our Spiritual Formation ft. Michael Wear

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Podcast: [Formation with John Ortberg](https://stenobird.com/podcast/formation-with-john-ortberg-7804940)
Published: 2026-05-20T11:00:00+00:00
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What does it look like to follow Jesus when the culture insists that everything depends on the next election? Michael Wear joins John for a conversation about politics, allegiance, and the slow work of keeping ultimate things ultimate. A former White House staffer who came to faith as a teenager in a Wegmans grocery store, Michael has spent his career arguing that Christian knowledge is not just privately meaningful but publicly useful, and that the church has handed political parties a power...

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