537: The War Over Christmas Movies & Gen Z's Mental Health with Josh Packard
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The Hallmark Channel is now producing Christmas movies with LGBTQ characters and relationships leading the network's former CEO to launch a new holiday movie channel with straight relationships only. The Holy Post crew discusses the role of representation in entertainment, and why a number of recent LGBTQ-centric movies have bombed at the box office. Then, Al Mohler attacked David French for not opposing civil same-sex marriages leading Phil to ask whether Mohler is more interested in defending Christianity or just conservatism. And Skye talks with Josh Packard from Springtide Research about the mental health of Gen Z. New data says young people who engage in spiritual practices experience greater mental health, but they're not the practices most congregations promote.
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News Segment
00:00 - Intro and updates
5:19 - The war over Christmas movies
34:42 - David French and Al Mohler
Interview with Josh Packard
Springtide Research Institute: Gen Z and Mental Health - https://www.springtideresearch.org/gen-z-mental-health
51:31 - Interview intro
52:35 - Big takeaways from recent findings
55:12 - Creating healthy environments
58:33 - Gen Z and spiritual practices
1:05:30 - Safety in faith communities
1:08:37 - Challenge vs despair
1:11:32 - Loneliness and connection
1:23:53 - Further resources
1:26:45 - Credits
Other links mentioned:
"The parable of David French" by R. Albert Mohler Jr. (World) - https://wng.org/opinions/the-parable-of-david-french-1669034447
"Candace Cameron Bure Wants to Put Christianity Back in Christmas Moves" (Wall Street Journal) - https://www.wsj.com/articles/candace-cameron-bure-great-american-family-11668205295
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Holy Post. The Hallmark channel is now producing Christmas movies with LGBTQ |
| 0:05.2 | characters and relationships, leading the network's former CEO to launch a new holiday movie |
| 0:10.1 | channel with straight relationships only. Today on The Holy Post we discuss the role of |
| 0:15.0 | representation in entertainment, and why so many recent LGBTQ-centric movies have bombed at the |
| 0:21.0 | box office. Then, our molar attacked David French for not opposing civil-same-sex marriages, |
| 0:27.2 | leading Phil to ask whether molar is more interested in defending Christianity or just conservatism. |
| 0:32.9 | And then I talk with Josh Packard from Spring Tide Research about the mental health of Gen Z, |
| 0:38.3 | and how new data shows young people who engage in spiritual practices, experience better mental health, |
| 0:44.0 | but they're not often the practices that most churches promote. Before we jump into the episode, |
| 0:48.7 | two quick notes. First, we have a new episode of Christian asks this week exclusively for our |
| 0:53.4 | Patreon supporters, so if you're not a supporter yet, go to HolyPost.com and click the support us |
| 0:58.2 | button to get access to all of those bonus episodes, as well as bonus interviews with our guests, |
| 1:03.1 | and the Getting Schooled by Caitlin Shes series. And then secondly, if you want to get Holy Post |
| 1:08.0 | merchandise in time for Christmas, you should go to our website and order that soon. Okay, |
| 1:12.5 | here is episode 537. Hi there, welcome back to The Holy Post podcast. I'm Phil Vischer. I'm |
| 1:18.4 | here with Christian Taylor. Hi Christian. Hey Phil, how are you? I'm great. Thanks. And Skyjitani. |
| 1:25.0 | Hi Sky. Hi. Excuse me. Hi. We will ask you how you are. Last week before I was sick for |
| 1:34.2 | the recording and today, Sky is sick for the recording. I am slightly under the weather. We're |
| 1:38.5 | passing it around. Just passing it around town. For the interwebs. It's coming your way, Christian. |
| 1:44.4 | The hot potato of viral infection. I already had mine. I'm past it. Really? You're all done. |
| 1:49.7 | Yeah. It was like six weeks of coughing and congestion. Yeah. I'm just kind of lingers. |
| 1:56.4 | I'm coming out of it, but I'm not quite out of it. It's just it's the gift that keeps on giving. |
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