#385 How Five Words Became the Center of the Culture War

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 June 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Truth. Love. Justice. Tolerance. Authenticity.

Everyone uses these words—but are we even talking about the same things?

In this Q&A episode, Alisa tackles one of the biggest challenges facing Christians today: the redefinition of language. From moral relativism to "love is love," from authenticity culture to social justice, discover how changing the meaning of words can completely reshape the way we think about God, morality, identity, and reality itself.

If you've ever been told you're "unloving" for holding a biblical view, or wondered why conversations about truth seem impossible, this episode will help you cut through the confusion and recover clear, biblical definitions.

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, today I'm going to be interacting with some questions that came in through a recent
0:14.5	Q&A that I did.
0:15.6	And all of the questions on today's show have to do with words and the misunderstandings that can happen when we're defining
0:22.8	words very differently from one another. How many times have you been in a conversation that just
0:28.5	goes south? And you don't realize why until later it dawns on you that you and the person you
0:34.7	were talking to are talking about the same thing, but you're defining
0:38.0	it very, very differently. Well, that is a huge problem in our culture, especially surrounding
0:43.8	hot button, hot topic words like love, justice, tolerance, truth, authenticity. We're going to
0:50.4	talk about all of it today, how we can cut through the chaos and the confusion
0:54.7	with clarity and biblical truth.
0:56.7	And before we do that, though, I want to let you know about a couple of things coming up.
1:01.3	Number one, if you're not subscribed to the Unshaken Faith podcast, I really want to encourage
1:06.9	you to subscribe to that.
1:08.0	That is a podcast that I do with my friend Natasha Crane, who,
1:11.7	in my opinion, is one of the clearest, most knowledgeable, smartest, brilliant thinkers of our
1:19.2	day. And we do a podcast called The Unshaken Faith podcast where we'll take a topic, maybe a book,
1:24.3	and we'll review the book together, or we'll just take a hot button
1:27.6	cultural or political topic, and we'll discuss it from a biblical worldview. Well, we just
1:32.1	released an episode this past Wednesday about AI and some statistics that have been released
1:38.1	about Christians and their interactions with AI. How many Christians actually trust AI? The answer
1:44.0	might surprise you. How many Christians actually trust AI? The answer might surprise you. How many Christians
1:45.6	think that AI can actually help them grow spiritually? Is that true? Is that good? Is that biblical?
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