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but Stephen, I've heard that it's difficult to fall off a Segway ;) re: social media - without it, I probably would not have heard of either of you blokes, your book(s), your channel here...

Saw Aaron talk in Yorktown, Indiana 👍 almost through his book and it’s a great read!

Sarah, thank you for this clear and inviting look at your book, and at history. Blessings on you all from one of your temporary, but important homes.

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Perfect illustration with the ACO example as being both the music & artefacts rooted in history and a testament to a great God, but without explicit worship. How marvellous would it be to have the musicians or MC acknowledge the creator & creative giver. Perfect - "History does give us a way of praising God's transcendence". "Where have we come from and does it actually matter?" Precisely the perspective I see around me all the time. Is it partly the factor of urgency? Where reflecting on history and reading takes time and care, whereas individualistic choices can be instant? Communicating the urgency of taking history seriously considering the imminence of Christ's return is so important. Keen to read the book for your perspective, Sarah.

Politicians are especially responsible for incentivizing the school system into this. Implanting a trans topic into impressionable kids minds that, would otherwise not have ANY trans relations AT ALL. If there were a few Trans Kids that came forward for help, that's fine. HOWEVER having ALL kids question their gender identity, sexuality & body autonomy is CHILD abuse to vulnerable minds. And the useless politicians are selling their country by instruction of outside forces. We see what's going on. Affect the upcoming generation & the country will flip more into turmoil & be defenseless. Also the politicians are responsible fueling the division, the distraction, and for the regressing of society, but we all are responsible for enabling that... #WeNeedToOwnUp...

No shock! Nothing new under the sun!

"We'll do terrible things to people in the future on the basis that it's legal" yup, can see that progression! Great challenge to be gracious @24:10

How can we ever effect any change by God’s grace through faith if we are not allowed to preach law and gospel from where we are in the maelstrom of secularism???

The cultural change is that more and more people are rightly concluding that Christianity is false and harmful.

As a Democrat I agree however Trump is NOT THE ONE!!

I'm an American and let me correct you. The media is not in favor of democrats. We have several news outlets that are neutral to both sides and then we have 2 far right propaganda channels specifically Fox News and Newsmax. The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party with conservative values. Many Republicans do not stand with Trump. This Party is a far right populous party and a cult worshiping a twice impeached President and convicted felon who cares nothing for democracy or the constitution. He is the greatest con-artist in the world and has prayed upon the patriotism of many Americans including my dear parents. There is nothing remotely Christian about Trump or the current so called GOP.

..it's over..only people over 40 go to church any longer...disenfranchised with the "brand"

We have a Treaty with the CROWN after we walked FROM the BATTEL FOR OUR LAND'S as EQUAL'S now our diffrent cultured white people are trying to GENOCIDE US & OUR TREATY WITH THE CROWN Because their not included,& wd have a socialist Christian leader if the most racist political party in politic's New Zealand Goverment DISEMPOWERING MAORI PEOPLE FOR OUR LAND'S

Wonderful interview.

It wasn't the Last Supper. It was Dionysus, not Jesus, from the painting "The Feast of the Gods." The piece's creator said as much. Why do Christians have this desperate and self-absorbed need to interpret every cultural offering as an attack on them? Why can't you content yourselves with trying to stop your authority figures from abusing children and leaving the rest of us alone?

An interesting discussion. Thank you. The change began with the Reformation which abolished asceticism, eventually fasting, and the inherited interpretation of Scripture based on theosis. Together with the 'Enlightenment' and the process of turning the self into God. In the Roman Catholic Church, the big recent fall escalated with Vatican II when they decided they needed to 'modernise' to appeal to modern society. I converted from RC to Eastern Orthodox over 30 years ago, living in a rural town in England. The steady flow of converts are primarily from Evangelicals of all Protestant denominations and non-denominational... and atheists. It's not all 'intellectuals'. It's primarily young men (which is a strange phenomenon), simply wanting Christ and truth. Worship 'in the Temple' is not about being entertained and getting a buzz from the event, but about what we give of ourselves to God, with due respect, fear and love, in communion with the Church of our fellow Christians... and to partake in the central gift of the Church which is the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist. When that message is grasped, then people can see that it's not actually about them and what they get, but about God... God, not made in their image, according to their interpretation, but the risen Christ of the first Christians. The Christian ethos of Eastern Christianity is a world away from the Protestant and Roman Catholic West. 'The Orthodox Faith' by Kalistos Ware is a great book to help understand this, if you've not read it. God bless you.

As garbage as the event was, and as much as I hate alphabet activism - you claiming to be victims so you can validate and aggrandise your belief system is pathetic. There's an explanation for the event which makes sense and you didn't bother to try and refute. It's nothing to do with your book.

Have you taken the time to hear what the creator of the scene said? It renders this entire discussion moot. The scene was meant to depict Le Festin des dieux, by Bijlert. The fact that people mistook it for the Last Supper, by da Vinci, speaks more to an ignorance of artistic history on the part of the general populace than it does an attempt to offend by Thomas Jolly. The mistake made by the Olympic representatives was not their approval of the scene but their apology for it. They bear no blame for public ignorance or the tendency of the religious to overreact to assumed slights.

Grew up near Grove City College and so glad I went to Youngstown State University instead.

My two main motivations to become an Eastern Orthodox Christian from being a baptist, were beauty, depth and tradition in worship, but also a clearly laid out spiritual pathway to follow, in pursuit of Christlikeness, regular confession, for example, the centrality of the Eucharist in worship, as opposed to the sermon, the regular fasting periods, the disciplines and blessings available in everyday Orthodox living outside of church. I always felt as a baptist, you reallly had to design your own spirituality outside of church.

In our Orthodox parishes we sing the Nicene Creed together at every service of Divine Liturgy.

Many churches would do well to have their congregants memorize scripture before introducing creeds.

The animation sounds on this video are so annoying. Please stop!

If you think WSJ or Fox is still a balance, you're mistaken..they are controlled opposition that are most valuable at critical times to divide conservatives

I do disagree with your election analysis...weve had a color revolution in America...just like America has done in other places...the media is captured and over 1/2 the population cant escape it no matter what..free speech is relegated to the ghettos of UA-cam or the web..thousands of conservatives have been fired, sued, jailed...the justice system is mostly captured, elections are deeply compromised..the left knows this election is existential...they can dominate all media, report false polls, rig the vote ( if needed) and incite revolution if they lose. Trump will win if they let him..maybe to be at the helm when they finally pop the economic bubble they created...i don't think things can change until we hit a crisis and take strategic action at the local level

what do you think about Christians making a big core institutional headquarter like BYU for Mormons...so many smaller Christian colleges are Christian in name only like SMU, TCU, Baylor

I like the idea that we should have a degree of acceptance about the culture..but how do we deal with parents and churches not being able to even teach their children like Germany...and people targeting faith businesses just to find what they won't do ( bake a trans wedding cake) and suing them out of business

by Protestant do you mean semi-catholic like liturgical, Anglican and Lutheran? where I live those churches are very rare... and have succumbed to extreme liberalism like the Methodist Church... there are mostly Evangelical churches here which would be more in the tradition of anabaptism.. do you see a resurgence of Protestant churches or are you including Evangelical churches under that category?

most young people don't have any Christian heroes... All they know about church history is the crusades, the witch trials, and the scandals... This is of course intention... they don't know any of our roles in creating schools, universities, literacy, healthcare, or science

I asked a teenager recently who was raised in an academic Bible Church and the leading Christian School in Dallas, Texas. if they knew one proof for the evidence of God or the resurrection of Christ... they said no. in church there was low-level color sheet, type of activity and the school had largely been induced by the state to provide mostly the same curriculum as the deconstructing government teaches in public schools... So that school is planning to build a nice new gymnasium, but most of their students have no sense of Christian history, worldview, values, or apologetics... they have enough but not enough to combat the weight of pagan programing

Alexander Dugin says our problems go back to the Rennaissiance...it seems there is a terminal problem started with man as the measure of all things

Many US evangelicals want to go Catholic bc of the root structure ( and many of our leaders are bought off like Gospel Coalition) but they see how compromised is Pope Francis

The educational system has poisoned the minds of our youth..and most churches have no ideas of proper catechisms, worldview creation, training, rites of passage, or offering value propositions to our young adults like helping them get proper schooling and work

Im impressed Carl made the realization that hypersubjectivity had conquered the West about 8 years before anyone was talking about it..."my interpretation of truth" is truth even now as it relates to math, gravity, or gender..Alexander Dugin has laid out an interesting perspective how the Russians are dealing with this, accepting Orthodoxy, and reworking philosophy

Glad to find this channel.. we're finding each other!

Thank you gentlemen. I would love to see recitation of creeds as a thing we do in our churches and I worry that we don't. Also some ancient hymns would be excellent, and some recitation of the Psalms. Oh dear this now sounds like old man shouting at clouds. But if you insist on forcing a choice, I would prefer to not reinvent the wheel each week. The Lord's prayer that I prayed last week is still just as good this week.

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Trump caused this chaos FFS. he enabled Putin.

The major factor not discussed is the virtual hegemonic control of the instruments narative creation by the Democrat party.

Why are they so allergic to addressing who to vote for? What's the great biblical conviction that requires such censorship?

Brilliant episode!

Christ is King ✝️

Some years ago I spoke at an evangelical-run Muslim-Christian Relations conference on the topic of persecution of Christians. As part of that event, I was put on a panel comprised of two muslims and two Christians, to provide Muslim (sunni ans shia) and Christian answers answers to a set of questions. The final question was: "Do Muslims and Christians believe in the same Jesus?" Being an expert apologist on the subject of Islam, the other Christian provided a brilliant intellectual response to conclude, "No." Both muslima then argued, "Yes." My words (which happened to be the final words of the night - if i remember correctly) were a recitation of the Nicaean Creed (re Jesus): "I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, begotten of the Father before all ages ..." (etc , to the end of the long middle section, ending, "His kingdom will have no end."). It was a Holy Spirit thing in answer to prayer as I wasn't even aware I had memorised it! THEN I simply asked the Muslims on the panel: "This is the Jesus we believe in; is this the Jesus you believe in?" And all we could hear was the sound of grinding teeth. It was awesome ...got applause... thank-you Holy Spirit ... and thank-you all those pastors who got me to recite and hear the Nicaran Creed every Sunday for so many years. 🕊️

Speaking as an agnostic of the transcendent and supernatural, it seems to me that Christian church and community does have some moral cultural value for societal stability - whether or not church members actually believe in God. However I think resistance and mockery of Christianity is a response to its inherent outward evangelicalism - you preach in my face and I will ridicule your faith-based delusions in return. A further problem is the 'battle of the sects' which has been a feature of Christianity since the 1st century - despite creeds and canonization. There is also no doubt that attempts by sects to adapt and re-invent themselves and then fracture in the process (eg the Church of England), doesn't help the cause!

Perhaps THE defining shift in values, which occurred in my lifetime, flowed out of the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Thinking or feeling that Jews or people of color were bad or inferior in some way became seen as the most mortal sin, the ultimate transgression against the good and true and beautiful. Thus conduct, formerly the arena in which good and evil expressed themselves and engaged in combat, receded in significance and deferred to thoughts and feelings as the ethical battleground. For example, the white guy who harbored, due to cultural conditioning, the idea that black people were inferior to whites, yet who would dive into a raging river in a heartbeat to save a drowning child of any color, was considered evil. And the person who thought and felt that all people were equal in every way, or at least claimed to so think and feel, was considered a good person without regard to whether he or she had the courage to risk his or her life to save a child. In a nutshell, virtue embodiment gave way to virtue signalling, and the upshot is the sorry state of society which now demoralizes the beat of us.

God made a few perfect heads, the rest He covered with hair. Some of us are becoming more perfect :)

(minor technical nit - there is a slight 'earth hum') very low down (amateur audio tech here)

Cool podcast, Well done guys

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