Shifting Culture Trailer

We have conversations about the culture we create and the impact we can make. With different guests each podcast episode, we have in-depth interviews into what it looks like to live in the Kingdom of God and embody Jesus in the world. We long for a more compassionate and love-oriented world to live in.

Transcript

Joshua Johnson: 0:00

What if faith wasn't just about what we believe, but how we live, love and disrupt cycles of chaos, fear and destruction? What if the way of Jesus could actually interrupt what feels unbreakable and open up a new story for us all

Manny Arango: 0:14

as Christ followers, we now have the power to break the cycle of chaos. I don't have to live in my grandparents chaos or the chaos of my life five years ago, I can make the decision as a follower of Jesus to break any kind of generational cycle and to follow Christ into freedom.

Joshua Johnson: 0:35

On shifting culture, we ask the hard questions, how do you actually change yourself, your family, your community, even your church. How do we move from self centered living to a life of radical service and real transformation?

Adam Young: 0:50

The goal is freedom, because when you are free from the places you are stuck and bound, then you are able to participate in the corner of the kingdom of God that has your name on it because you are free to be fully you. This

Joshua Johnson: 1:08

show is about real change, personal, cultural, systemic. We don't shy away from pain or the patterns that keep us stuck. We dig into stories, trauma, leadership, marriage, power, greed, beauty and the hidden ways our past shapes our present. We're

Molly Worthen: 1:25

storytelling and story seeking creatures, and we're always trying to plug our chaos into a narrative that makes sense, and that's the through line, all the way from Puritans of Massachusetts Bay to our modern social media, Tiktok culture, weakness

Andrew Arndt: 1:40

is where the strength of God is completed. So that might actually be the way in which we see the power of God begin to rush again into our culture when we stop trying to coerce the culture into being the way that we want it to be. Instead, we show up again as heralds, ambassadors of the good news of the glory of God.

Joshua Johnson: 1:57

We long to see the body of Christ look like Jesus. That means asking the tough questions about justice, gender leadership and our deepest wounds.

Beth Allison Barr: 2:07

The first thing that we have to do is recognize how we have been complicit in obstructing God's use of women in vocational ministry, and then we have to move to work together to make sure that all women, no matter what they are called to, are supported within the church. I

Malcolm Foley: 2:28

want people to encourage their pastors to preach about greed more, because it's all over the Bible. It's idolatry. It's the most insidious sin that we face. Because I don't want to be a Mammon worshiper. I want to be a worshiper of the Triune God. If you dig deep enough there you're gonna deal with, not only issues of race and racism, you're gonna deal with a whole lot of other issues too. Beauty

Aimee Byrd: 2:47

is actually an invitation to walk in goodness, to walk in truth, to see beauty in that way. I definitely see God in that as a beckoner.

Ian Morgan Cron: 2:57

If I could reach the end of my life and say that I learned how to love and, even more importantly, how to be loved, then I will have lived a good life. We

Joshua Johnson: 3:06

talk about marriage not as a power structure, but as a partnership where both people can thrive and look more like Jesus, but

Sheila Gregoire: 3:14

when you go into marriage believing that he's the tiebreaker, then when you don't agree on something, you think, Oh, I guess this is a time I'm supposed to submit. Or he thinks, oh, this is the time I'm supposed to make the decision. And you take shortcuts, and that's what we see over and over again. In the data, is that people who believe that he has the tie breaking vote have much lower scores on emotional maturity.

Matthew Bates: 3:35

We are saved not just from hell or not just from our own selves, but we're saved for full restoration of our image bearing, so that the glory that is currently lacking in our lives and lacking in creation can reach a maximum again, so that we're restored to full health.

Joshua Johnson: 3:53

If you're hungry for a faith that confronts what's broken, celebrates beauty and believes in real change, this is your invitation. Let's break cycles. Let's shift what's possible together. This is shifting culture, the way of Jesus, can and will shift everything you.