What happens when truth becomes whatever you feel it is, and disagreeing with someone’s reality is suddenly oppressive? From the Inquisition to postmodern culture wars, Western society has swung from God-centered, objective truth to ‘my truth is law.’’ In this episode, we dive into Francis Schaeffer’s 1970s warning that ditching reality for feelings would make life weird (understatement), why atheistic scientists often have more in common with biblical Christians than postmodern social constructivists (and why podcasters like Joe Rogan are giving those thinkers more and more of a platform), and how The Police got it right: truth hits everybody. The lyrics of the hymn will be filled with thought of identity, the chaos created by the collection of individual truths, and why silencing someone because you don’t like their facts is basically medieval inquisitor cosplay—without the hooded robes but armed with bhashtags. So slide on down the digital pew as we think through some last thoughts in our series on  Presuppositional Apologetics.

The Police Truth Hits Everybody

Some Intelligent Design Thinkers to Take a Look At:

Stephen Meyer

Michael Behe

Hugh Ross

William Dembski

Stephen Meyer on the Joe Rogan Show

What should a Christian's role in politics be?

On this hymn, Coach, dives into the recent off-year elections and what they reveal about the state of American politics. We discuss Donald Trump not as a conservative ideologue, but as a pragmatist (tariffs anyone?), and explore how his approach often clashes with biblical wisdom—especially when it comes to James’ teaching about the power of the tongue, a lesson he clearly still needs.

How each political party needs to watch its extremes and the failure of German Prime Minister Hindenburg looking to control and utilize a mere corporal and its devastating consequences.

We look closely at Virginia voters, who might denounce Trump’s rhetoric yet still supported an attorney general who publicly wished death on a political opponent, raising questions about moral consistency in political choices.

From there, we explore the problems of communism throughout history using the lesson of the Tower of Babel, not as a story of judgment alone, but as a sign of God’s mercy in scattering humanity.

Switchfoot’s anthem “Meant to Live” reminds us that we were created for so much more than politics or partisan loyalty.

Switchfoot "Meant to Live" Video

Interview with Switchfoot singer Jon Foreman on his faith and music.

Everyone places their faith in something is a truth we cannot escape. Each one of us are seeking that ultimate truth. Coach continues his series on the apologetics for the Christian faith that he is currently teaching his senior high Sunday school.

On this hymn, he brings up the following:

• Christian apologist Wes Huff debunking the claim that today's Bible is as corrupted as when we play the telephone game with quotes from former Christian now agnostic Bible scholar, Bart Earhman backing him up (Video of Wes Huff discussed in Hymn in this link)

• Musician Derek Webb, his deconstruction from Christianity while maintaining his need to preach his "truths" through song.

• The weaponization of Popper's Paradox of Tolerance as an attempt to silence opposing views

• How the Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant actually makes the claim for the exclusivity of absolute truth rather than promoting inclusivity that it claims

Continuing a series from what he is teaching to teens in Sunday School class, Coach discusses the questions, "What is wrong with the world?" and shares the conflicting views of the Biblical concept of sin and the philosopher's Rousseau's view that society causes human evil and we must change the system (or in modern parlance, systemic change). Also going to a brief discussion of Nietzsche and his challenge for people to be their own god, or super man.

But that what the temptation was to Adam and Eve in the Garden, "You will be like God". Coach takes a step back to look at Adam and Eve before the fall, what it means to be created in the Image of God, and how human sin is at the heart and in the heart of all of us.

Like it or not, we all live by faith. None of us have infinite knowledge of anything; reality is that we are finite creatures locked in by time and space. On this hymn (and series of hymns) Coach shares what he is discussing with his Senior High Sunday School class this year. On this first in the series we focus on Absolute Reality and what view of reality we place our faith in drives how we act and what we believe, and we begin to develop why the Christian worldview relates most to reality.

Books Mentioned:

Every Thought Captive by Richard Pratt

How Should We Then Live by Francis Schaeffer

The Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen Meyer

He is There and He is Not Silent by Francis Schaeffer

Alarm Songs

Absolute Reality

The Stand

Spirit of '76

Sold Me Down the River

Strength

After a summer break, Coach is back sharing his concern of the polarization in American politics but tragically needed to change his example due to horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. If "We the People" believe in Freedom of Speech, then no matter your political persuasion you should be denouncing what occurred, sadly there are many people who disliked Kirk in life who are trying to play the "yeah it was wrong, but" game.

Coach then questions the propriety of a curriculum focused on the negatives of US History and the progressive view that has made its way from academia into the K-12 classroom (sharing experiences with his own daughter's school district who Language Arts department has bought into the oppressed/oppressor view of Paulo Freire hook, line, and sinker) and discusses the Hitchcock film "The Rope" where students enact the philosophy of their beloved teacher with deadly results.

The hymn concludes with a discussion of how sin forms in our inability to control our desires and shares the solution that Charlie Kirk and he found, God's love demonstrated through Jesus Christ.

The song for this week is a little known Christian song from the 80's from one of Coach's favorite artists, Steve Taylor. Here is the song he discusses in the hymn.

Steve Taylor "To Forgive"

Did you celebrate Independence Day?

Do you know where Jefferson got his ideas for the Declaration of Independence?

Coach shares a discussion he had with some high schoolers who couldn't answer these questions and why it's important for them to know. It changes how we see the American Revolution into the American Reformation; it wasn't a desire to overthrow and radically change the institutions or government (such as in the French Revolution ) but a reminder what their ancestors had earned as British subjects. One proof of this is the lack of a reign of terror that is seen in every attempt to radically change in order to deliver a promise utopia.

The hymn concludes with the idea of true freedom that can be found in Jesus.

⁠Don Mclean American Pie⁠

⁠https://www.johnlocke.org/john-locke-and-the-declaration-of-independence/

Is diversity our strength or what unites us?

Using the tale of two Yugoslavian basketball players as a cautionary tale, Coach shares his last lesson to his students for the school year as a reminder that in all talk about how diverse the United States is we rarely talk about what unifies us, and how it is often missing in the newer approaches of teaching history such as Culturally Relevant teaching, DEI, or Critical Race Theory.

The hymn raps up with a talk about Christian unity that must be centered around the actions taken by a merciful and loving God who gave redemption to sinners like me through Jesus.

And a shocking tale from the singer of School's Out, Alice Cooper

Do words have meaning, and if they don't, then what is the foundation we stand on?

Recent court cases on President Trump's tariffs are highlighted in this episode to first begin with a civics lesson on the branches of government and leads into a discussion of the conservative and liberal view of the Constitution; is it a living or dead document and why it matters.

The hymn ends by exploring the importance of the Immutability of God and presenting the words exegesis and eisegesis & how that affects our approach to applying scripture to our lives; do we pull meaning out of the text or read meaning into the text.

What can two small colleges (Hillsdale and Grove City) teach Harvard?

Coach shares his views on government involvement in schools and how it is a loss of independence with Harvard's current fight with the Trump administration (where he makes the bold claim that he actually knows more than Harvard's president Alan Garber) and also discusses the recent (May 2025) decision of the US Supreme Court denying 2 Catholic charter schools public funding. What makes a school truly independent?

Along the way, you'll hear about Luther's 2 Kingdom view, the proper way to address religion in the classroom, the concept of DEI that is being taught rather than the strawman DEI that is presented in most argument to avoid just criticism of the overall concept, and an interesting survey from faculty of UC Berkley that DEI initiatives may have gone too far, even to the point of being mere virtue signaling when the need for action presents itself .

UC Berkeley Survey Story

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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

-C.S. Lewis