The times where I felt the most comforted by people is when they didn’t try to explain away my pain, or explain away my hurt or my depression or my anxiety. When they were just like man, that’s hard, and that sucks and I’m here for you
#29 – MARIJUANA DILEMA FOR CHRISTIANS // TODD MILES
It will be legalized at a federal level. Under age use is going to go up… that’s going to affect the church
#28 – THE CHOSEN BEATS HOLLYWOOD // DERRAL EVES
It wasn’t even 2 days later that I had a check in my hands for a 120,000 dollars which was exactly what we needed to do what we needed to do and that’s just told me right there and there that there is a higher power. God is with us…. He’s proven time and time again when we hit those spots
#27 – LEADERSHIP MASTERCLASS WHEELCHAIR CHAMPION // JOE DELAGRAVE
“He hits the bottom of the river, I fly backwards, my head hits on the front of the boat, snaps my neck… instantly makes me a quadriplegic”
Joe Delagrave: Team USA Wheelchair Rugby Paralympian
#26 – ETHICS OF A.I. // JASON THACKER
One of the temptations in the Age of AI is to treat our fellow human beings as simply pieces of data… we dehumanize them
#25 – AMERICAN ETHNICITY // CHANDRA CRANE
One of the many beautiful things about the Bible is that ethnicity is real, that ethnicity is tied to ancestry, is tied to land, is tied to culture, is tied to heritage, is tied to family of origin, is tied to all these things that make us who we are and that can be grouped into subsections in a way that is not harmful
#24 – GOD’S GREAT LOVE FOR LGBTQIA+ (TRANS) PEOPLE // PRESTON SPRINKLE
Throughout Scripture we see a very high view of our sexed bodies in determining human identity
# 23 – TEACHING AFRICAN WOMEN HOLISTIC SELF-DEFENSE // GRACEFUL WARRIOR PROJECT
8 out of 10 rapes are known as acquaintance rapes. They are not by strangers, they are by people that you know, they’re by people in your class, in your family, at your job, the person you know at the grocery store.
#22 – YOU HAVE PERMISSION PODCAST // DAN KOCH
There’s some pretty weird conservative culture like being obsessed with guns, being obsessed with war and militarism
#21 – ‘REFRAMATION’ THE CHURCH 500 YEARS FROM NOW // MARK NELSON
We have lost the ability to speak truth into people’s lives because we no longer understand where they are coming from