Eschatology Matters isn’t going anywhere—but it is growing.

In this special update, I’m sharing the vision behind the EM Network—why we’re expanding to multiple shows each week, what’s coming next, and how you can be part of it.

We now have:
– Take Heart (Monday) 
– The World View with Alex Kocman (Tuesday)
– Reaction & Topical Content (Wednesdays) 
– The Magistrate with Baird & Howard (Thursdays)
– Theology & Study content Fridays)
Plus new shows in development!

This isn’t just more content—it’s a mission: To tell the full story of Scripture, clearly and faithfully, and to recover a hopeful, victorious vision of the future. If you believe eschatology matters, now is the time to lean in.

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Can Christianity be restored to the center of American life? In this episode of The Magistrate, Josh Howard and James Baird engage two competing narratives shaping the current conversation around religion in America—decline and revival. Interacting with recent articles from American Reformer and The New York Times, they examine whether the so-called “waning” of Christianity tells the full story, or whether deeper currents suggest something else entirely.

Is America moving beyond Christianity… or is a return still possible? More importantly—what would it actually mean for Christianity to be “central” again? Cultural influence? Political establishment? Or something deeper? This conversation pushes beyond simplistic binaries and asks what a historically Protestant, theologically grounded vision for public life might look like in the present moment.

https://americanreformer.org/2026/03/...

We walk you through the ways we’ve “improved” lawnmowers, power washers, and even our diets—by lowering the standard of success. 

Between the three of us, we’ve collected a highlight reel of poor decisions: mow mishaps, backyard experiments, and deep thoughts about sardines, anchovies, and whatever Grape Nuts are supposed to be. We share the kind of “redneck hacks” that sound helpful right up until you try them—like stuffing a rag into a mower’s air intake to save starter fluid.

We also explore self-defense, which for us mostly means recognizing how quickly we would lose a fight. We’ve studied the irrationality of street fights just enough to conclude the smartest move is to not become a story someone else tells later. 

Along the way, we uncover “truths” like the difference between reel mowers and the real mowers, the correct spelling of 'lapping compound', and why hot sauce might technically qualify as a weapon. We also spend an unreasonable amount of time debating cereal, because nothing reveals our intellectual limits faster than our fascination with the expansion rate of Grape Nuts.

We even get into emergency preparedness, which for us means looking around the house and saying, “What could this be used for instead?” Could Grape Nuts replace kitty litter? Should hot sauce be used as a fire extinguisher? We don’t recommend it, but we’ve clearly thought about it more than responsible people do.

If you’ve ever fixed something the wrong way and felt proud anyway, you’re one of us. 

In this episode of the Podcast for Cultural Reformation, Nate Wright, Dr. Joe Boot, and Dr. Michael Thiessen discuss how to think Christianly about science and evolutionism. They challenge the modern myth that Christianity and science are enemies, arguing instead that modern science was born out of a biblical worldview. They also expose evolutionism as more than a neutral scientific theory, showing that it functions as a rival religious worldview with deep cultural consequences. Finally, they explore how Darwinian thinking reduces human dignity, morality, and meaning, and why only the Christian worldview provides the necessary foundation for true science and human flourishing.

Jacob Glass responds to a common claim about Daniel’s 70 weeks—that it predicts the end of the world. But does the text actually say that? Walking through Daniel 9 and Hebrews, Jacob shows that the prophecy points to Christ’s first coming—not the end of time. The work of putting away sin, bringing in everlasting righteousness, and fulfilling the vision was accomplished in the first century. If that’s true, it changes how we understand prophecy, the mission of Christ, and what we should expect about the future. Watch and consider the text carefully.

I'm your China travel guide in exile, Missionary Ben, currently in Indonesia as this podcast drops. Follow me on Twitter/X (@chinaadventures) where I share a new Chinese city to pray for every single day. Feel free to email anytime: chinacompass @ privacyport.com. Check out PrayGiveGo.us for everything else, incl. Patreon, Substack & books…

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Why the Prison Pulpit? 

The goal is to remind people to pray for persecuted believers as Hebrews 13:3 teaches: “Remember those who are in prison, as bound with them.” We’ve looked at Wang Yi and Early Rain Church’s writings in the aftermath of their arrest and attack in 2018, but I’ve also regularly turned to other persecuted ministers who have gone before, such as Richard Wurmbrand, to give us a voice literally from prison. 

(Here are some free PDF books from Richard Wurmbrand: https://richardwurmbrandfoundation.org/)

If Revival Comes: A Major Shake-Up Awaits China’s Church

https://www.chinasource.org/articles/if-revival-comes-a-major-shake-up-awaits-chinas-church/

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Your costs are up. Supplies cost more. Labor costs more. Everything costs more. Your margin is shrinking. The obvious answer is to raise prices. But what if your customers are price-sensitive, and your competitors haven't moved? You're worried that raising prices means losing the business entirely. So you're stuck. Costs rising, prices frozen, margin compressing. You need a way out that doesn't involve hoping things get better. Hope dies last.

Evangelicals are everywhere—but why do they seem to have so little cultural influence?

In this episode, Mike D’Virgilio (The Based Boomer) critiques a discussion between Jon Harris and Aaron Renn on the lack of evangelical leadership in positions of cultural power.

Is a better understanding of “creation” enough to fix the problem? Mike argues it’s not. What’s missing is something deeper—a robust, biblical vision of victory that shapes how Christians think about culture, leadership, and the future. If we want real cultural transformation, we need more than diagnosis. We need a framework that actually produces it.

Referenced in this episode:

• Aaron Renn’s article: https://firstthings.com/the-problem-w...

• Sermon on postmillennialism:    

• Sermon: My Journey to Hope for the Future  

https://mikedvirgilio.com/

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