Culture Matters

We chat with the author of The Big Disconnect, Catherine Steiner-Adair, about ways technology is making us sadder and lonelier and how it is disconnecting parents and children. Then we discuss the place of Thanksgiving in the Christian life.

Author, blogger and speaker Trillia Newbell talks with Josh and guest host Kyle Worley about her personal story concerning race and discrimination. They discuss God's vision for diversity, the reality of racial injustice, our current cultural climate and how we can pursue reconciliation moving forward.

We talk about the film The Birth of a Nation, which tells the story of Nat Turner, the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion. We then have a conversation about politics with Alan Noble and Michael Wear. 

We have a robust conversation with pastor and author Thabiti Anyabwile on single-issue voting, the 2016 presidential election and why he is casting a vote for Hillary Clinton. 

In this episode, Matt and Josh talk with author and pastor Joshua Ryan Butler about judgment, hell, apologetics and other hard topics. Then in our Slow Takes segment, we take a look at the phenomenon of Netflix's original series, Stranger Things, specifically why were drawn to the mysterious and supernatural and how to think about it in light of the gospel.