Kingdom Culture Conversations

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

As this very special Kingdom Culture Conversations hits your podcast feed, it is the week of August 3rd, 2026 and we are super excited!  After a long and boring summer, students will finally begin returning to the ground and virtual campuses of Northwest Christian School and NCS Online!

As students begin showing up for registration, back-to-school fun, stitching events, and more, each day this week, we'll take the time to hear from the leaders of each of the respective divisions of our school.

Bree Tarbutton, Early Ed Director and Kinder Principal - Monday, August 3, 2026

Eric Dowdle, Elementary Principal - Tuesday, August 4, 2026

JT Barnes, Middle School Principal - Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Samantha Maszton, Assistant Superintendent/Interim HS Principal - Thursday, August 6, 2026

Jessica Gake, Director of C&I, NCS Online - Friday, August 7, 2026

The On Purpose series resumes next week...but enjoy these wonderful conversations as we learn a bit more about our school leaders...

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

As this very special Kingdom Culture Conversations hits your podcast feed, it is the week of August 3rd, 2026 and we are super excited!  After a long and boring summer, students will finally begin returning to the ground and virtual campuses of Northwest Christian School and NCS Online!

As students begin showing up for registration, back-to-school fun, stitching events, and more, each day this week, we'll take the time to hear from the leaders of each of the respective divisions of our school.

Bree Tarbutton, Early Ed Director and Kinder Principal - Monday, August 3, 2026

Eric Dowdle, Elementary Principal - Tuesday, August 4, 2026

JT Barnes, Middle School Principal - Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Samantha Maszton, Assistant Superintendent/Interim HS Principal - Thursday, August 6, 2026

Jessica Gake, Director of C&I, NCS Online - Friday, August 7, 2026

The On Purpose series resumes next week...but enjoy these wonderful conversations as we learn a bit more about our school leaders...

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

As this very special Kingdom Culture Conversations hits your podcast feed, it is the week of August 3rd, 2026 and we are super excited!  After a long and boring summer, students will finally begin returning to the ground and virtual campuses of Northwest Christian School and NCS Online!

As students begin showing up for registration, back-to-school fun, stitching events, and more, each day this week, we'll take the time to hear from the leaders of each of the respective divisions of our school.

Bree Tarbutton, Early Ed Director and Kinder Principal - Monday, August 3, 2026

Eric Dowdle, Elementary Principal - Tuesday, August 4, 2026

JT Barnes, Middle School Principal - Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Samantha Maszton, Assistant Superintendent/Interim HS Principal - Thursday, August 6, 2026

Jessica Gake, Director of C&I, NCS Online - Friday, August 7, 2026

The On Purpose series resumes next week...but enjoy these wonderful conversations as we learn a bit more about our school leaders...

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

School is starting!  

And, with the resumption of school just around the corner, with a summer of diverse perspectives on the age of the earth, scriptural translations, and cosmic origins behind us, in the final analysis, what is that Northwest Christian School teaches its students?

The largest private school in the state of Arizona...a school with the audacity to include "Christian" in its name!  Does it teach Old Earth?  New Earth?  What is said about evolutionary theory?  How is Genesis presented...allegory?  Literal history?

The moment of truth has come!

Today, we spend time with Junior Bible teacher Nicole Hunter as she breaks down all of these questions and more!  Although we still have a few weeks and episodes on origins and creationism ahead of us, today we enjoy insightful commentary and solid Biblical perspective on how this is all presented to students!

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Sherman Mohler discovered a dinosaur.

Well, technically, he was part of the team that unearthed, cataloged, researched, and ultimately named Ornatops incantatus, a type of duck-billed dinosaur that roamed northern New Mexico approximately 80 million years ago.

By the way, Sherman discovered this dinosaur not too far from where he goes to church while he's on fossil expeditions.

Wait.  Church?  Fossils?  80 million years?  Is it possible to include all of these things in the same episode of Kingdom Culture Conversations?

That is the reason that Sherman Mohler, a recognized and accomplished paleontologist, who serves as the president of the Southwest Paleontological Society, accepted the invitation to be our guest for what will be two days of very intriguing conversation.  Plainly said, Sherman wants our students and listeners to know that you can follow Christ, believe your Bible, and hold to an understanding that the world is billions of years old.  Further, he's inviting us to do the work -- read the research, study God's Word, examine the evidence -- and, decide for yourself, recognizing that your security in Christ and position in your Christian faith are not at risk.

To learn more about the Southwest Paleontological Society, please follow this link.

The SPS is part of the Arizona Museum of Natural History.  To learn more about AZMNH, please click here.

Ready to take Sherman Mohler up on his challenge?  BioLogos.org is a Christian nonprofit organization founded by geneticist Francis Collins, best known for leading the Human Genome Project. The organization seeks to promote what it describes as the harmony between Christian faith and modern science, particularly in areas such as evolution, genetics, cosmology, and the age of the earth. BioLogos generally advocates for “evolutionary creation,” the view that God used evolutionary processes in creation.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Sherman Mohler discovered a dinosaur.

Well, technically, he was part of the team that unearthed, cataloged, researched, and ultimately named Ornatops incantatus, a type of duck-billed dinosaur that roamed northern New Mexico approximately 80 million years ago.

By the way, Sherman discovered this dinosaur not too far from where he goes to church while he's on fossil expeditions.

Wait.  Church?  Fossils?  80 million years?  Is it possible to include all of these things in the same episode of Kingdom Culture Conversations?

That is the reason that Sherman Mohler, a recognized and accomplished paleontologist, who serves as the president of the Southwest Paleontological Society, accepted the invitation to be our guest for what will be two days of very intriguing conversation.  Plainly said, Sherman wants our students and listeners to know that you can follow Christ, believe your Bible, and hold to an understanding that the world is billions of years old.  Further, he's inviting us to do the work -- read the research, study God's Word, examine the evidence -- and, decide for yourself, recognizing that your security in Christ and position in your Christian faith are not at risk.

To learn more about the Southwest Paleontological Society, please follow this link.

To learn more about the Arizona Museum of Natural History, please click here.

Ready to take Sherman Mohler up on his challenge?  BioLogos.org is a Christian nonprofit organization founded by geneticist Francis Collins, best known for leading the Human Genome Project. The organization seeks to promote what it describes as the harmony between Christian faith and modern science, particularly in areas such as evolution, genetics, cosmology, and the age of the earth. BioLogos generally advocates for “evolutionary creation,” the view that God used evolutionary processes in creation.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Today:

Perhaps you should sit down.

In a Kingdom Culture Conversation that you will not soon forget, in today's episode we meet pastor and author Dean Davis.  Dean has innumerable qualifications for ministry, is well educated, has served the Lord faithfully for decades, and is a profoundly avid student of scripture.  And it is that study of scripture, followed by years of scientific research, that have led him to a remarkable conclusion.

Dean Davis believes that the Earth is the center of the universe.

The heliocentric model — the idea that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun — gradually became the dominant scientific view between the 1500s and late 1600s.  But, today, you will meet a credibly incredible individual who holds to the opposite:  the geocentric model.  And, in what will be a two-part episode, Dean will present what he holds to be both the scriptural and scientific justification for his position.

And, this is the part where you might want to sit down.

What you will hear him say today and tomorrow makes a lot of sense.

To learn more about Dean Davis' ministry, Come Let Us Reason, please follow this link.

To read Dean's testimony and about his call to ministry, please click here.

Dean's case for a Young Earth can be found here.

His exploration and explanation of what he believes is scriptural cosmology can be found here.

Background:

In the summer of 2016, the annual Crusaders Charge into Summer Reading campaign introduced us to Russ Miller, a storied and established Biblical creationist who lives, believe it or not, off-the-grid in a crater in northern Arizona.  If that were not crazy enough, during that summer, Miller introduced us to his book, "The Cost", and he made two audacious claims.

First, Russ Miller claimed that the universe and all of creation was established by God in six 24-hour days, less than 10,000 years ago.  He claimed he had scientific and scriptural evidence to back up his claims.

Second, Miller claimed that if our nation continued to deny God the creator and the concept of "Imago Dei" -- that we are created in the image and likeness of God, on purpose, and for a purpose -- our culture would go into a freefall, losing all concept of right and wrong, falling into chaos and disorder.

Now, ten years later, Russ Miller is back and his warnings and worries have exploded into reality.  Our country and our culture are mired in confusion about truth, gender, marriage, race, identity, spirituality, and more.

We are paying what Miller called "The Cost" of losing track of who we are and whose we are.

This summer, we're going deep into creationism.  We are going to spend time with audacious individuals who believe in Young Earth, Old Earth, Theistic Evolution, Geocentricity, and, yes, a Flat Earth.  Our journey will be anchored in God's word as we enjoy some pretty amazing conversations.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

The 2025/2026 school year was a year of administrative transition for Northwest Christian School with assistant superintendent Samantha Maszton winning the day in a dual role as secondary principal, overseeing middle and high school as the school eased through several transitions.  All the while, administration kept an eye out for the individual that would take the reins as a new principal.

The 2026/2027 school year brings that hunt to a close as J.T. Barnes moves into the role of Middle School Principal.  

As you will hear in today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, it has truly been an epic journey for Barnes!  Having started as a student teacher and teaching both Bible and history, Barnes has served administratively in both primary and secondary settings.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua!

Today:

Harvard biologist Ernst Mayr said the quiet part out loud.

In 1999, Mayr gave a lecture titled "Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought" and in this lecture he indicated what had only been suspected previously:  that Darwinists believe that there is no corner of creation, no school of thought, aspect of culture, or pursuit of science to which Darwinian evolutionary theory cannot be made applicable.

That's not even the shocking part.

Mayr went on to suggest that to accommodate this general applicability, we needed to recognize that the science of chemistry and physics is not the same science as that of evolutionary biology.  What?

In today's Kingdom Culture Conversation, author and Biblical creationist Russ Miller yanks back the curtain and reveals the endgame of Darwinists.

Background:

In the summer of 2016, the annual Crusaders Charge into Summer Reading campaign introduced us to Russ Miller, a storied and established Biblical creationist who lives, believe it or not, off-the-grid in a crater in northern Arizona.  If that were not crazy enough, during that summer, Miller introduced us to his book, "The Cost", and he made two audacious claims.

First, Russ Miller claimed that the universe and all of creation was established by God in six 24-hour days, less than 10,000 years ago.  He claimed he had scientific and scriptural evidence to back up his claims.

Second, Miller claimed that if our nation continued to deny God the creator and the concept of "Imago Dei" -- that we are created in the image and likeness of God, on purpose, and for a purpose -- our culture would go into a freefall, losing all concept of right and wrong, falling into chaos and disorder.

Now, ten years later, Russ Miller is back and his warnings and worries have exploded into reality.  Our country and our culture are mired in confusion about truth, gender, marriage, race, identity, spirituality, and more.

We are paying what Miller called "The Cost" of losing track of who we are and whose we are.

Miller's latest book is "Consider the Cost" -- an updated and expanded version of "The Cost" that is available at no cost in the three offices of Northwest Christian School -- and his message remains the same:  we must understand that we were created by God on purpose -- we are not biochemical happenstance -- and we were created for a purpose.  We are loved and valued.  The truth is knowable.  We have a reason.  We have a mission.

This summer, we're going deep into creationism.  We are going to spend time with audacious individuals who believe in Young Earth, Old Earth, Theistic Evolution, Geocentricity, and, yes, a Flat Earth.  Our journey will be anchored in God's word as we enjoy some pretty amazing conversations.

But, at the end of the day, diverse positions aside, every moment and every word of the KingdomCultureConversations.com episodes that we will hear this summer (between May 11th and September 28th) will be rooted in one truth:  You were created on purpose and for a purpose.

To learn more about Russ Miller and his organization, "Creation and Evolution Science Ministries", please follow this link.

"Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit:  https://www.ncsaz.org/

To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email [email protected] or you can reach him by cell phone:  (623)225-5573.