The Cartographers

What did we learn about the culture wars? What's providing us with hope? And, what's coming next on The Cartographers?

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Other episodes in this series:

Episode 1: Stuck in the Middle

Episode 2: How'd we Get Stuck in the Middle?

Episode 3: A Culture War Alternative with Mark Labberton

Episode 4: Agent of Grace or Culture War Victim with Dan Darling

Episode 5: What if Culture Wars are your Work? with Pete Wehner

Episode 6: Beauty as an Antidote to the Culture Wars with Susannah Black Roberts

Episode 7: The Burning House of American Evangelicalism with Brandon Washington

Episode 8: Humor Deflates the Culture Wars with Harrison Scott Key

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What if humor was more than just a way to break tension or get a laugh? Humor takes the air out of anger, leads towards forgiveness, and provides a way to opt out of culture war thinking. In this thoughtful, funny, and moving conversation, Bryce and Ashley sit down with Harrison Scott Key, author of How to Stay Married. They speak about restoration, faith, and the role humor plays.

How to Stay Married is a book about an affair and the outrageous mercy of God. Find a pathway to the true, good, and beautiful even in the darkest of times -- without pandering to platitudes.

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Resources mentioned:

Harrison's book, How to Stay Married

Harrison's website

Jamie Quattro, Fire Sermon

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Barbie movie

Other episodes in this series:

Episode 1: Stuck in the Middle

Episode 2: How'd we Get Stuck in the Middle?

Episode 3: A Culture War Alternative with Mark Labberton

Episode 4: Agent of Grace or Culture War Victim with Dan Darling

Episode 5: What if Culture Wars are your Work? with Pete Wehner

Episode 6: Beauty as an Antidote to the Culture Wars with Susannah Black Roberts

Episode 7: The Burning House of American Evangelicalism with Brandon Washington

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Are the culture wars a White thing? How do we think about race in America and the church? What might be the way forward? In this hopeful conversation with Pastor Brandon Washington he describes his multi-ethnic ministry and how the gospel compels us to strive for deliberate and sacrificial integration—the unity of believers of all ethnicities.

Be sure to listen to other episodes in the series and we'd be grateful if you left us a review on iTunes.

Resources mentioned:

Brandon's book, A Burning House: Redeeming American Evangelicalism by Examining Its History, Mission, and Message

Brandon's "Black and Evangelical" article in Christianity Today

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Other episodes in this series:

Episode 1: Stuck in the Middle

Episode 2: How'd we Get Stuck in the Middle?

Episode 3: A Culture War Alternative with Mark Labberton

Episode 4: Agent of Grace or Culture War Victim with Dan Darling

Episode 5: What if Culture Wars are your Work? with Pete Wehner

Episode 6: Beauty as an Antidote to the Culture Wars with Susannah Black Roberts

The Cartographers is a production of Willowbrae Institute. Find out more at willowbrae.org. Be sure to signup for Willowbrae's newsletter.

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When the world feels unstable, we double-down on fear and tribalism. Beauty is an antidote to culture war fear. Hear one New York writer's story of conversion and how the Christian gospel is more solid than secularism in this episode with Susannah Black Roberts.

You can follow Suzannah Black Roberts on Twitter, Plough, or read her Substack with husband, Alistair Roberts.

Resources mentioned:

"Babette's Feast"

CS Lewis, Surprised by Joy

Other episodes in this series:

Episode 1: Stuck in the Middle

Episode 2: How'd we Get Stuck in the Middle?

Episode 3: A Culture War Alternative with Mark Labberton

Episode 4: Agent of Grace or Culture War Victim with Dan Darling

Episode 5: What if Culture Wars are your Work? with Pete Wehner

The Cartographers is a production of Willowbrae Institute. Find out more at willowbrae.org. Be sure to signup for Willowbrae's newsletter.

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When your job is politics, how do you get away from the rhetoric and tribalism of the culture wars? In this episode, Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales talk with Peter Wehner, a contributing editor for The Atlantic and a former presidential speech writer, about navigating culture war topics.

Pete Wehner is a Senior Fellow at Trinity Forum @trinityforum; he writes for @nytimes & @TheAtlantic. He has worked in Reagan/Bush41 administrations and Bush43 White House. He’s also the author of The Death of Politics.

Resources mentioned:

Pete's work in The Atlantic

James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars

"Four Forces Bind Trump's Supporters More than Ever," Atlantic

For more on Mark Labberton, listen to our episode with him on the beauty of exile

Other episodes in this series:

Episode 1: Stuck in the Middle

Episode 2: How'd we Get Stuck in the Middle?

Episode 3: A Culture War Alternative with Mark Labberton

Episode 4: Agent of Grace or Culture War Victim with Dan Darling

The Cartographers is a production of Willowbrae Institute. Find out more at willowbrae.org. Be sure to signup for Willowbrae's newsletter.

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What happens if you've been a victim of the culture war? When Daniel Darling was fired from a prominent evangelical organization, he knew he needed not to capitulate to the culture wars, but to find a robust unity. His newest book, Agents of Grace, embodies one way to move beyond warring factionalism and embody the gospel Christians believe.

Be sure to listen to the series to chart your way through the culture wars.

Resources mentioned:

Dan's book, Agents of Grace

Dan's CNN appearance

Keller's Center Church

Niebuhr on 4 postures (synopsis by Brad East at Mere Orthodoxy)

Adventures in Evangelical Civility, Mouw

Mark of a Christian, Schaeffer

Non-Anxious Presence, Sayers

Rene Girard on currency of victimhood (summary at Washington Examiner)

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Need an alternative to online culture warmongering?

On this episode, Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales talk with Mark Labberton, President Emeritus of Fuller Theological Seminary, about how exile is the paradigm we need for this cultural moment. Be sure to listen, subscribe and share. We'd love if you shared these episodes with a friend or family member as a starting point for conversation.

Be sure to head to Willowbrae Institute to sign up for our newsletter and get a free pdf to help you process the "culture wars."

Resources mentioned and other episodes in this series:

Episode 1: Stuck in the Middle

Episode 2: How'd we Get Stuck in the Middle?

Mark Labberton's lecture "Beauty in Exile"

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On this series, "Stuck in the Middle," we're talking to leaders like you who feel pulled into multiple directions in the latest iteration of the culture wars. (Here's the first episode if you missed out on that).

On this episode, Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales talk about the questions they bring to the table, the origin of the term "culture wars", what's involved (and get a short literary history in the process) and how a leader can actually lead through cultural change without capitulating. Be sure to listen, subscribe and share. Consider using these episodes as a starting point for conversation.

Be sure to head to Willowbrae Institute to sign up for our newsletter and get a free pdf to help you process the "culture wars."

Resources mentioned:

James Davison Hunter, Culture Wars

James Hunter, To Change the World

Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind

Mark Sayers, A Non-Anxious Presence

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If you feel like you're stuck in the middle of polarization, disinformation, and decision fatigue this new series on the "culture wars" is for you!

In this short intro, Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales share some of their hopes to help guide the conversation around partisanship and tribalism so that leaders can chart a pathway through the culture wars. In this series, you'll get more from thoughtful leaders and practitioners so you'll have a framework to move beyond being "stuck in the middle" to live faithfully in this moment in time.

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Resources mentioned:

Culture Wars by James Davison Hunter

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

The Cartographers is a production of Willowbrae Institute. Find out more at willowbrae.org. The Cartographers is hosted by Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales and mixed and edited by Nathan Michel.

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How can we get out of bed each morning? Alan Noble's On Getting Out of Bed is a gentle reminder to do the next right thing when you or someone you love experiences mental affliction. In this conversation, Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales talk about Alan's work, what the redemption of Jesus means for depression and anxiety, and how to move beyond performing our pain.

Resources mentioned:

Alan's latest book, On Getting Out of Bed

Alan's other books: Disruptive Witness and You are Not Your Own

Ashley's latest book, A Spacious Life

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The Cartographers is a production of Willowbrae Institute. Find out more at willowbrae.org. The Cartographers is hosted by Bryce Hales and Ashley Hales and mixed and edited by Nathan Michel.

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