Ideas Have Consequences

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• The Forging of the American Mind on Our 250th Anniversary | David Goodwin 30.06.2026 1t

  Episode Summary: The quickest way to learn about the culture of a nation isn't to watch its politics. It's to watch how it educates its children. In this episode, we sit down with author and classical Christian educator David Goodwin, president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, to explore why education is never neutral and how it shapes a child's worldview, character, loves, and vision of reality. Drawing from his new book, The Forging of the American Mind, and the best...
• Successful Business Built on Conviction: 7 Weeks Coffee | Anton Krecic 23.06.2026 57min

  Episode Summary: Can a business be both profitable and deeply purposeful? Anton Krecic thinks so. After witnessing the funding challenges facing pregnancy resource centers, he founded Seven Weeks Coffee, a mission-driven company that has donated more than $1.8 million to support life-affirming pregnancy resource centers nationwide. We discuss entrepreneurship, brand building, faith and work, leadership, profit, purpose, and why conviction may be one of the strongest competitive advantag...
• Understanding the Times & Knowing What to Do: Occupy Till I Come | Naomi Smith 16.06.2026 1t 3min

  Episode Summary: Revival is not enough to heal this civilizational moment. Many Christians long for spiritual renewal, but what happens after revival? How do transformed hearts lead to transformed families, institutions, communities, and nations? In this episode, Naomi Smith joins us to discuss her new book, Occupy Till I Come, co-authored with Darrow Miller. Together, they explore why understanding our cultural moment is only the beginning. Diagnosing our culture's problems is relative...
• The Discipleship Gap: Why So Few Christians Have a Biblical Worldview | Dr. Len Munsil 09.06.2026 1t 6min

  Episode Summary: What if the biggest problem facing the Church isn't a lack of activity, but a lack of measurable discipleship? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Len Munsil, President of Arizona Christian University, to explore a question most Christian institutions never ask: Are we actually forming a biblical worldview in the people we disciple? And as a reminder, “you cannot become a genuine disciple of Jesus without having a biblical worldview” (Dr. Barna). Drawing on years of r...
• The Last Stand: Why the Battle for Life Is a Battle of Worldviews | Dr. George Grant 02.06.2026 55min

  Episode Summary: What happens when a society rejects the sanctity of life and abandons a biblical worldview? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. George Grant to discuss The Last Stand, his documentary created with Seth Gruber. Together, they trace the historical roots of today's cultural battles, showing how the struggle over human dignity, the value of children, and the lordship of Christ has shaped civilizations from ancient Rome and the French Revolution to modern America. Dr. Gran...
• Gender Confusion, the Woke Right, & the Search for Salvation | Dr. Jeff Myers 26.05.2026 1t 9min

  Episode Summary: Gender ideology, anti-Semitism, the Woke Right, and conspiracy thinking may seem like separate issues, but according to Dr. Jeff Myers, they all flow from a deeper worldview crisis: Where do people look for identity, meaning, and salvation? This week, we sit down with the president of Summit Ministries and author of Raising Gender-Confident Kids to discuss the growing confusion surrounding gender and identity, the cultural pressure facing parents and students, and why r...
• Very Few Christians Lead Public Life: Why? | Bracey Fuenzalida 19.05.2026 1t 29min

  Episode Summary: In the United States and in many nations around the world, Christians make up a large percentage of the population. Yet despite our numbers, the broader culture is often shaped far more by other ideas, values, and worldviews than by a distinctly biblical vision of life. What is missing in Christian discipleship that keeps the Gospel from shaping not only personal faith, but the broader culture? This week, we talk with Bracey Fuenzalida of the Falls Church Fellows Progra...
• Poverty Isn’t a Money Problem | Arturo Cuba 12.05.2026 1t 18min

  Episode Summary: What if we’ve been approaching poverty from the wrong angle? In this episode, I’m joined by Arturo Cuba, who has spent decades in Latin America tackling the deeper roots of poverty. Together, we rethink the idea that poverty is just a lack of money or that more generosity will fix it. We explore how mindsets, priorities, and worldviews hold people back. Arturo shares how a biblical worldview addresses poverty’s root causes and why money alone, without heart change, often mak...
• What Would a Christian Family Look Like Today? | Jeremy Pryor 05.05.2026 57min

  Episode Summary: The modern West tells a story about family that sounds normal until you measure it against Scripture: raise kids, launch them out, start over every generation, and call it success. Jeremy Pryor, co-founder of Family Teams, argues that this “nuclear family” script is recent, fragile, and negatively forming both the culture and the church more than we want to admit. So we slow down and ask a better question: what did God design the family to be? Jeremy walks us through Ge...
• Kingdom Ambassadors: Clear Truth, Calm Courage, Real Influence | Greg Koukl 28.04.2026 56min

  Episode Summary: Churches are filling. Bibles are selling. People are searching for truth again. The question is: are Christians ready to meet the moment? This week we sit down with Greg Koukl, founder of Stand to Reason, for a timely conversation on what it truly means to live as an ambassador for Christ and His kingdom in a confused and hostile culture. Greg explains why effective Christian witness is not about winning arguments, but representing the King with truth, wisdom, and chara...
• Why the Sexual Revolution Has Africa in Its Crosshairs | Stephen Langa 21.04.2026 1t 20min

  Episode Summary: The sexual revolutionaries are trying to disciple the nations, and Africa is their mission field. Why is the West colonizing Uganda through coercive sexual ideology and political pressure? Why has our friend and guest found himself at the center of a global culture war? This week, we sit down with Stephen Langa from Kampala to discuss the clash between Western sexual revolution ideology and Uganda’s efforts to simply protect families and children. Stephen shares firstha...
• P*rn & Human Tr*fficking | What Every Christian Should Do | Lance Cashion 14.04.2026 1t 19min

  Modern slavery doesn’t start in the shadows. It starts with demand. And the darkest injustices in our world are often hidden behind the things that we tolerate. Today we talk with Lance Cashion, founder of the Forge Room Foundation, about the connection between pornography, commercial sexual exploitation, and sex trafficking. We dig into the worldview behind these evils and how when sex is detached from God’s design and people are reduced to objects, exploitation follows. But this issue isn’t...
• The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits | Dr. Joe Rigney 07.04.2026 57min

  Episode Summary: Everyone loves empathy these days. But beware! Empathy seems to be a virtue perfect for hijacking and using for evil under the banner of good. In this provocative episode, we sit down with theologian Joe Rigney to expose the dangerous confusion between biblical compassion and what he calls “the sin of empathy.” When compassion is untethered from truth, it can manipulate hearts, distort justice, and harm the very people it claims to help. From gender identity and i...
• Made to Live: The Good News of the Kingdom of God | Dwight Vogt 31.03.2026 1t 4min

  Episode Summary: Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God continually. In contrast to “church,” which is only mentioned twice, “kingdom” is mentioned over 120 times in the gospels. So why do we treat the Kingdom like it barely matters? In this episode, we sit down with our former co-host, Dwight Vogt, to discuss his newest book, Made to Live: The Good News of the Kingdom of God. Starting in Genesis 1, Dwight shows how the Kingdom is the unifying thread of Scripture and the key to understan...
• When Feelings Become Truth: Critical Thinking in a Post-Truth Age | Juan Valdes 24.03.2026 1t 6min

  Episode Summary: We’ve entered a world where seeing is no longer believing. In a culture shaped by deepfakes, viral outrage, and endless information, a deeper question emerges: how do you know what’s real? When feelings become truth, reality doesn’t disappear; it just gets ignored. And increasingly, that confusion isn’t just out there; it’s showing up inside the Church. In this episode, we sit down with pastor and apologist Juan Valdes, author of How to Think: A Crash Course in Critical...
• Why Christians Disengaged from Culture: Last 100-Years of History | Krista Bontrager 17.03.2026 1t 16min

  Episode Summary: Why do so many churches struggle to respond to today’s cultural challenges? The answer lies in a forgotten chapter of church history. What’s happening in the church today did not appear overnight. The roots go back more than a century. This week we are joined by Theology Mom, Krista Bontrager, co-founder of the Center for Biblical Unity. She traces how the modernist fundamentalist controversy that started in the late 1800s ultimately set the stage for current postmodern...
• Faith Deconstruction: How Postmodernism Is Reshaping Christian Faith | Tim Barnett 10.03.2026 57min

  Episode Summary: What if deconstruction isn’t a crisis of faith, but a crisis of authority? This week, we sit down with apologist Tim Barnett from Stand to Reason, Red Pen Logic, and co-author of The Deconstruction of Christianity to unpack the ideas behind the faith deconstruction movement and learn how it's affected every one of us in more ways than we realize. We explore how postmodern thinking shifted authority from Scripture to the self, why that change reshapes conversations...
• The Church has the Answerers: Poverty, UBI, Homelessness, and AI jobs | Ena Richards 03.03.2026 1t 7min

  Episode Summary: What if poverty isn’t mainly an economic crisis, but a discipleship crisis? This week, we sit down with a true expert, Ena Richards, founder of Work for a Living, to challenge the dominant narrative about poverty. Ena argues that poverty persists where destructive worldviews persist. It thrives in soils of blame, envy, entitlement, unforgiveness, addiction, fatherlessness, and victim identity. The solution clearly isn’t more handouts, but hearts transformed. Not perform...
• The Same Idea Fueled the Holocaust and the Sexual Revolution | Seth Gruber 24.02.2026 1t 10min

  Episode Summary: The sexual revolution isn’t progress. It’s a regression into outright paganism. This is not an overstatement. Today, we trace a direct line from Malthus and Darwin to Galton, Havelock Ellis, and Margaret Sanger, exposing how eugenic ideas shaped the birth control movement and continue to influence law, medicine, education, and even the Church today. Seth Gruber joins us to unpack his documentary The 1916 Project, laying out the historical evidence and connecting the dot...
• Book Release "Occupy Till I Come" | Darrow Miller 17.02.2026 1t 6min

  Episode Summary: Christians make up more than half of the American population, but culture is unraveling. The future of the West will not be decided by elections, but by whether the Church rises or retreats. In this episode, we’re launching Occupy Till I Come with its author Darrow Miller and argue that the Great Commission includes discipling nations at the ground level of culture. The real crisis, Darrow contends, is the sacred/secular divide that has confined faith to Sundays and sur...