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Angels and the Image of God
Today at 4:01 AM

What does Scripture say about the role and rank of angels? 

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Bonus: Fidelity Month
Yesterday at 4:02 AM

Professor Robert P. George joins John Stonestreet in discussing Fidelity Month.


The Wholesome Side of Social Media
Yesterday at 4:01 AM

They came for the soccer, but America is wooing international first-timers.

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The Myths of Christian History
Last Tuesday at 4:01 AM

Believers should speak of our Savior, the Bible, and our faith with the confidence of both objective truth and a changed life.

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Spielberg Wants to "Mess With" Your Faith
Last Monday at 4:01 AM

Non-believers don't understand how theologically deep and rooted is the Christian faith in truth. 

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Is the LDS Church Christian? Fidelity Month, Gene Editing is Back and HelloFresh 'Celebrates' Pride, and a YouTuber Takes Heat over an Abortion
Last Friday at 7:00 PM

Sen Lee of Utah took exception with the Pentagon's labelling. NYT announces a new era of gene editing. John talks to Professor Robbie George about Fidelity Month. HelloFresh promotes perversion, A YouTuber is criticized for aborting a preborn baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome, but Bethany Christian Services makes a welcome change.

Segment 1 – Are Mormons Christian? Gene Editing is Back

Breakpoint article

NY Times article on gene editing


Science and the Declaration of Independence
Last Friday at 4:01 AM

America's founding recognizes human exceptionalism. 

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Roger Bacon, a Man Ahead of His Time
06/11/2026

Bacon was an important thinker for the future and the Christian faith.

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The Church of Latter-day Saints Should Not Be Labeled "Christian"
06/10/2026

The debate about what it means to be a Christian clearly needed to happen.

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Kingdom Bros
06/09/2026

What should winning the kingdom really look like for the young men excited about their faith? 

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Resolve Conflict and Find Peace and Hope with Adult Children
06/08/2026

Dr. Kathy Koch shares three insights from her new book, Resolve Conflict and Find Peace and Hope with Adult Children, that can keep your relationship with your children healthy and restore it if it's unhealthy. 

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Pope Leo's Encyclical, School's Ban Phones and Fidelity Month
06/05/2026

Pope Leo's Letter has some thoughts on artificial intelligence; an increasing number of schools are telling students to leave their phones at home; Pride Month isn't getting as much recognition this year and college students can't read.

Recommendations

The Call by Os Guinness

Engaging God's World by Cornelius Plantinga

Truth Rising Study

Summit

Worldview Academy

Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung

Segment 1 – Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas and Schools Ban Phones


The Inconvenience of an Inconvenient Truth
06/05/2026

A look at Al Gore's documentary 20 years later.

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Bonus: What Really Matters
06/04/2026

Tim Goeglein joins John Stonestreet in discussing Tim's new book, What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family.


Unlaughable Comedy
06/04/2026

The fight for life-giving humor. 

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Before Rosa Parks, There Was Octavius Valentine Catto
06/03/2026

Catto believed fighting for equality was part of the Christian duty.

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The Slippery Slope Keeps Slipping
06/02/2026

If killing critically ill newborns isn't the line, where is it for medically assisted suicide? 

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Restoring the Republic through Everyday Faithfulness
06/01/2026

A month of fidelity, not pride.

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The Centrality of the Trinity
05/29/2026

Beyond time, Father, Son, and Spirit has had full personal fellowship within Himself.

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Navigating AI with a Christian Worldview
05/29/2026

John interviews Oxford professor and apologist John Lennox on Artificial Intelligence, how should Christians view this technology, and how to maintain a Christian vision of what it means to be human.

 

Segment 1 – Two Kinds of AI 

God, AI and the End of History: Understanding the Book of Revelation in an Age of Intelligent Machines 

Segment 2 


Pesky Facts
05/28/2026

What's happening when narratives, real or not, win over truths?  

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Should Have Been Aborted
05/27/2026

Ryan Bomberger is an amazing speaker with an amazing story, that is now the subject of a new book and documentary.

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Sober Minded in the Age of AI
05/26/2026

We are called to not be deceived and to not fear.

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Belief Without Becoming
05/25/2026

Why the Church's greatest need is formation. 

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UN Admits Climate Catastrophe Scenarios Were Overstated, Chatbots Influencing Morality, the Legacy of Bob Woodson, Christian College Funding Concerns and the Colorado Supreme Court Orders the Restart of Minor Transgender Care
05/22/2026

A report out of the UN says concerns about climate change were overstated. People who use chatbots are changing their views of morality. Proposed rules for funding colleges could create problems for Christian colleges. And another bizarre ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court on hospitals and transgender care.

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Segment 1 – OVERBLOWN CLIMATE CONCERNS; CHATBOTS INFLUENCING MORALITY

Energy News Beat article

Washington Post article


The Legacy of Bob Woodson
05/22/2026

Woodson was a civil rights warrior who didn't buy the dominant narrative about race and oppression. 

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Human Exceptionalism and Artificial Intelligence
05/21/2026

What's the point of formation over efficiency, leisure over work, and wisdom over perfection? 

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The First Lady of Pro-Life
05/20/2026

Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson laid the groundwork for the pro-life cause in America. 

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Looking for God at Disney
05/19/2026

Like all human beings with eternity in their hearts, Disney adults are creatures of longing.

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Colson Fellows Commissioned with Purpose
05/18/2026

Graduating, commencing, and a better way. 

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The Horrors of October 7; Attempts to Restrict Homeschooling; The Seattle Times Doxes Katy Faust and The White House Pushes IVF Again
05/15/2026

A new report on the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th. Connecticut is close to enacting a law placing more restrictions on homeschoolers. Katy Faust of Them Before Us was the victim of a hit piece by the Seattle Times. And John and Maria will talk about the administration's infatuation with IVF.

Recommendations

The World and Everything in It

Segment 1 – The Horrors of October 7; Attempts to Restrict Homeschooling

MSN article on October 7 report

Telegraph article on Nicholas Kristoff


From 'Liberalism' to 'Progressivism'
05/15/2026

The fissure in America's ideological Left. 

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Freedom of Conscience
05/14/2026

How Martin Luther and centuries of Church thinkers inspired the Bill of Rights. 

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Faithfulness, not Pride
05/13/2026

A Tennessee bill and a grass-roots effort bring light to a darkened June. 

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A Christian View of UFO's, Aliens, and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
05/12/2026

When thinking about things like UFO's, aliens, and UAP's, the best place to start is with the rule and reign of Christ over all things. 

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Dying with Dignity vs. "Death with Dignity"
05/11/2026

The legacy work of how we face death.

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Men Aren't Moms; Church is Good for You; Richard Dawkins Says AI Is Conscious, And Pro-Life Frustration with the White House
05/08/2026

We're celebrating mothers this Mother's Day weekend. Another study confirms what most already knew; church is good for your family. And there is growing frustration in the pro-life movement with the Trump administration.

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Them Before Us YouTube Video

The Desecration of Man by Carl Trueman

Segment 1 – Mother's Day

Them Before Us Substack

Them Before Us YouTube Video


A Colorblind Constitution
05/08/2026

The language of the laws of nature and nature's God.  

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Bad Deists
05/07/2026

It would make many comfortable if the Founders were Deists, but were they?

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Colorado Can't Seem to Stay Out of Constitutional Trouble
05/06/2026

Another First Amendment case is on the docket from the increasingly progressive Rocky Mountain state.  

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