The One Conversation

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Thanks for listening to our One Conversation podcast! We have decided to move all of our podcasts, including the One Conversation, to our Culture Translator podcast feed. You can find the Culture Translator podcast anywhere you listen to podcasts! 

This week we are joined by Chris Gonzales. After working in law enforcement for 19 years, Chris felt God was calling him to a new fight to protect children in the digital realm. As a father, he understands firsthand why so many parents feel like they have nowhere to turn to find good content in a safe environment, so he launched a platform called GoodTube Kids to create a safe place for kids and a resource for parents all in one place.

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This week we are joined by Jeremiah Parks. Jeremiah has been described as a fiery Texas-born, Oral Roberts University graduate. He is a pastor to the core and has loved living and ministering in Colorado Springs, raising 3 kids and founding a nonprofit called Heartwork with his wife, Niki. He is a passionate and inspiring father, friend, handyman, hiker, dreamer, and preacher. He’s always learning, most recently becoming bi-lingual, as part of serving orphans and widows in the mountains of Guatemala half of each year.

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This week we are joined by the Director of Content for Dark Room Faith, Mary Jo Sharp. A former atheist, Mary was raised without religion. She is now an assistant professor of apologetics at Houston Christian University, and as well as the founder of Confident Christianity Apologetics Ministry. She also is the author of the Zondervan book Why I Still Believe: A Former Atheist’s Reckoning With the Bad Reputation Christians Give a Good God and the LifeWay bible study Why Do You Believe That? She is an itinerant speaker on apologetics and has engaged in formal debates on Islam, and she focuses on using love and logic to uncover truth.

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In this episode we are joined by Professor Nancy Pearcey. Professor Pearcey is the author of The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, as well as Love Thy Body, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and Total Truth. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual." We’ll be talking primarily about her new book, The Toxic War on Masculinity. 

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This week we are joined by Jay Stringer. Jay is a licensed mental health counselor, an ordained minister, and an acclaimed international speaker dedicated to helping both men and women find freedom from sexual brokenness and pursue the life they truly desire. Through his clinical work, he offers a comprehensive understanding of the origins of sexual brokenness, shedding light on the factors that sustain these struggles. Jay’s academic background includes an MDiv and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the renowned Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. We’ll be talking today about his book Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing.

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This week we are joined by Dr. Preston Sprinkle. Preston is the president of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender and a New York Times–bestselling author who’s written a dozen books, including People to Be Loved, an award-winning book on faith and homosexuality, and his newest book which we’ll be talking about today, which is called Does the Bible Support Same-Sex Marriage? Preston and his wife, Chris, live in Boise, Idaho, with their four kids.

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This week we are joined by Parker Hymas. Parker is the Director of Public Outreach at Fight the New Drug. Fight the New Drug is a non-religious, non-legislative, educational organization that works with experts, researchers, celebrities, professional athletes, award-winning journalists, CEO’s, authors, influencers, and advocates from across all industries to share about the harms of pornography, and how we can address it in our society.

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Today we are joined by Elizabeth Flora-Swick. Elizabeth has a Master’s of social work from the University of Illinois, and is a graduate student at Global Awakening Theological Seminary. She works at a not-for-profit, serves her local church, and recently wrote a book called Undefiled Access: Healing the Worldview Divide between Charismatic Christianity and the Disability Community. As someone who lives with a visible disability herself, Elizabeth is passionate about encouraging all Christians to biblically approach conversations surrounding disability, suffering, and healing, and wants to make space specifically within charismatic theology and practice for people who experience disabilities. 

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