Shopping malls appear to be on the rise, the future of TikTok leaves users uncertain, and state legislation may be enforcing stricter age verification for online porn companies.

Resource of the Week - Parents Guide to 2025: 0:28

1. All Y’all at the Mall: 01:15
2. Reports of TikTok’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: 19:44
3. Age Verification, For Real: 35:55

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Parents Guide to 2025

Welcome to The Culture Translator Audio Version. This week shopping malls appear to be on the rise, the future of TikTok leaves users uncertain, and state legislation may be enforncing stricter age verification for online porn companies.

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Parents Guide to 2025

Melissa Dougherty is a Christian apologist best known for her YouTube channel with over 285,000 subscribers and counting. Her videos, which primarily cover New Age and New Thought, have been viewed over 18 million times. Melissa is highly regarded and connected in the apologetics community. She has a bachelor’s degree in religious studies from Southern Evangelical Seminary, where she’s also pursuing her master’s degree in religious studies. We’ll be talking today primarily about her new book, Happy Lies: How a Movement You (Probably) Never Heard of Shaped our Self-Obsessed World.

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TikTok refugees head to RedNote, wildfires bring heartbreak to Southern California, and Marvel Rivals takes off with teens. Welcome to the Roundtable.

Song of the Week: 0:24

1. Heroes Never Die: 10:05

2. Fiery Discourse: 21:49

3. Tick…Tock: 40:56

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Welcome to The Culture Translator Audio Version. This week TikTok refugees head to RedNote, wildfires bring heartbreak to Southern California, and Marvel Rivals takes off with teens.

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Welcome to The Culture Translator podcast. Today, we are posting an interview with Laila Mickelwait. Laila is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund, the Founder and leader of the Traffickinghub movement supported by millions around the world, and the national bestselling author of Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking. She has been researching and combating the injustice of sex trafficking since 2006 and is a leading expert in the field.

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Young men are converting to Orthodoxy, Squid Game returns, and the Beast Games are… beastly. Welcome to the Roundtable.

Slang of the Week: 0:51

1. The Harder Road: 9:43

2. Squid Game Season: 31:19

3. Feed the Beast: 43:20

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Welcome to The Culture Translator Audio Version. This week Young men are converting to Orthodoxy, Squid Game returns, and the Beast Games are… beastly. 

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Welcome to The Culture Translator podcast. Today, we are posting an interview with Skye Jethani. An award-winning author, speaker, and co-host of the Holy Post Podcast, Skye has written more than a dozen books, and also served as an editor and executive at Christianity Today for more than a decade. Raised in a religiously and ethnically diverse family, his curiosity about faith led him to study comparative religion before entering seminary and pastoral ministry. We’ll be talking today primarily about his series on miracles and wonders, published originally on his With God Daily platform, which provides daily devotionals for people who hate daily devotionals. 

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As you step into 2025 and start thinking about your goals for your family and how to build deeper connections with your teens—connections that ultimately draw them closer to Jesus— we’ve put together some conversation starters you can use to jump-start moments of depth and honesty.

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