217: Why Social Media Divides Us | Douglas Bursch

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Eric Skwarczynski

Documentary, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, True Crime, Christianity

4.6 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode, Eric Skwarczynski sits down with author Douglas S. Bursch to discuss his new book, Posting Peace: Why Social Media Divides Us and What We Can Do About It.

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Douglas is the copastor of Evergreen Foursquare Church in Auburn, Washington. He serves on the US Doctrine Committee, International Doctrine Committee, and Education Commission of the Foursquare Church, and he has taught theology courses as adjunct faculty for Life Pacific College and Life Ministry Institute. He earned a DMin from George Fox Evangelical Seminary with his dissertation research focusing on social media.

A former newspaper columnist and talk radio host, Doug has produced and hosted over 1,200 Christian radio broadcasts. He is the producer and host of the Fairly Spiritual Show radio program and podcast.

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0:00.0	Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.2	You are listening to the Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement.
0:20.3	The testimonies shared on this podcast are told from the personal fundamental Baptist movement. The testimony shared on this podcast
0:22.1	are told from the personal experience
0:24.1	and perspective of the survivors.
0:26.7	Not all legal outcomes are known or final.
0:29.7	Any suspect is presumed innocent
0:31.6	until proven guilty in the court of law.
0:34.3	Now, here is your host, Eric Squarsinski. All right, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher
0:41.0	Boys podcast. Doug, thank you so much for joining me on today's show. Well, I'm glad to be here.
0:45.9	Yeah, I'm glad we're here. This was, uh, this was fun trying to get this on the calendar and, uh,
0:51.1	both of us chasing each other a little bit, I think. I started that trend off. So I'm glad we're
0:56.6	finally sitting down. And if this didn't happen, I don't think it ever would have happened. So I'm
1:01.5	glad we're here. Well, look, I think this is a timely episode. You mentioned in your book,
1:07.2	you compare social media to a battlefield. And I think that is a pretty apt description.
1:14.3	How did we get here? How did we end up to this point where we can't have any discourse without
1:19.4	it erupting into anger? Boy, you know, I think that's the question everyone has, right? I think at some
1:26.0	level everyone knows that it seems to
1:28.3	becoming more divisive and we don't really know why. And we're wondering if it's just going to
1:34.0	get worse and worse until we can no longer function online. And for me, I'm not an anti-technology
1:39.2	person. We all know the incredible strengths of technology. But for me, I've tried to figure out what is causing
1:45.7	us to be so divisive. And the big thing for me is that the technology itself is dividing us,
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