#350 The War on Western Civilization, with John Stonestreet
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m joined by John Stonestreet from the Colson Center for a conversation about what’s happening to the West—and why so much of our cultural confusion suddenly seems to “make sense” once you understand the deeper worldview battle underneath it.
We talk about why civilizations are built around shared principles, and what happens when a society tries to keep the “fruit” of those principles—human rights, equality, dignity, freedom—while severing the roots that made them possible. John explains why the chaos and strange alliances we’ve seen in recent years aren’t random, but often share a common goal: undermining Western civilization itself.
John offers practical guidance for living faithfully in a hostile culture: refusing to repeat what isn’t true, being willing to have hard conversations, trusting God with outcomes, and asking four questions in your own sphere of influence: What’s good to protect? What’s evil to oppose? What’s broken to restore? What’s missing to contribute?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to the show. I'm Alisa Childers. This is the Alisa Childers. And I have a very |
| 0:14.5 | insightful conversation for you today with John Stone Street, who is the head of the Colson |
| 0:19.6 | Center. He's also a part of a new film called |
| 0:22.2 | Truth Rising. This has all sorts of great thinkers like Chloe Cole, Katie Faust, and my personal |
| 0:28.2 | favorite, Oz Guinness. And the premise of this film is that Western civilization is really |
| 0:33.7 | under attack. We're seeing a decline in Western civilization, in attitudes toward |
| 0:38.4 | Western civilization. And as John explained on the podcast, civilizations are centered around shared |
| 0:44.6 | principles, and you can cut a flower off of its root, and it will look the same for a while, |
| 0:49.7 | but after a while, it will start to wither, it will start to die. And that ultimately, Western civilization is worth fighting for. |
| 0:56.2 | It's worth standing up for. |
| 0:57.6 | And we've begun to talk about this a bit on our podcast, because maybe you've seen the |
| 1:02.5 | utter chaos and confusion over the last five or six years. |
| 1:06.1 | Maybe you've wondered how it could be that there are strange bedfellos like Islam, teaming up with Marxism |
| 1:12.8 | and teaming up with LGBTQ, all with a common goal. Well, Islam and LGBTQ and Marxism have |
| 1:19.4 | very, very different goals, but they have one common enemy, and that is Western civilization. |
| 1:24.1 | So there you go. And so this film will really explain why we're seeing some of the |
| 1:29.4 | chaos we are and why some of those strange bedfellows are coming together with this common goal. |
| 1:34.5 | So I want to encourage you to watch the film Truth Rising, but hopefully this conversation |
| 1:38.9 | will give you a taste for what's in it. So here's my conversation with John Stone Street. |
| 1:43.4 | John, great to have you back on the show. Talk to me about Truth Rising. It looks, I haven't had a chance to in it. So here's my conversation with John Stone Street. John, great to have you back on the show. Talk to me about Truth Rising. I haven't had a chance to see it yet, but I love the premise. I love a lot of the people you have in the movie, and I definitely want to encourage people to watch this film. But talk to us about what it's about and how it came to be. Well, the folks who are in the movie who are providing the guidance that I think Christians |
| 2:03.2 | really need for this cultural moment, I mean, that's worth the price of admission, which, |
| 2:07.2 | by the way, is free. So, you know, that doesn't mean that the value is, is cheap. |
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