Tim returns to the podcast to initially chat about his upcoming trip to Chicago but also to discuss how art and even entertainment has been subsumed by a distracted and addicted culture. Which leads to the question: Do Christians first need to critique culture in order to create it? And how have changes in culture impacted children and decisions we now make as parents...

00:00 - Intro & Tim's impending trip to Chicago
15:45 - CULTURAL ARTEFACT: The State of Culture in 2024
38:00 - Philosophy-Art-Music-Culture-Theology
41:03 - Do we first need to critique culture to create it?
49:03 - Not all technological change is progress
59:12 - Kids, Safety-ism & social contagion

DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE

Children's Spirituality Summit
TEDS
State of the Culture, 2024, by Ted Gioia
Nerdrotic 
The Critical Drinker
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Greg Laurie
The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt Substack
Snow White and the Evil Queen
The Super Mario Bros. Movie

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