862: Q, Vaccines, Censorship, Totalitarianism, & Engaging Culture: Gabe Lyons

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Few people understand the intersection between faith and culture better than Gabe Lyons. In this conversation, we avoid all the easy topics and only discuss the highly controversial ones: Qideas (not Qanon), COVID vaccines, can we trust the government, how should we think through the “facts” about the pandemic, is censorship really happening, how to think through sexuality and gender questions, and much more.

Gabe Lyons is the co-author of Good Faith (2016), unChristian (2007) and authored The Next Christians (2010), as a manifesto for how Christians can faithfully lead in a changing culture. He is the founder of Q, a learning community of Christian leaders where they are equipped to engage our cultural moment. Their Q Conference (www.Q2017.com) annually convenes thousands of leaders from all industries while Q Commons, their global event simultaneously unites 140 cities and over 10,000 people on an October evening (www.QCommons.com). Called "sophisticated and orthodox" by The New York Times, Q equips Christians apply their faith to daily life by addressing some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time. Gabe speaks to over 100,000 people each year on topics of equipping the next generation, cultural issues and research related to the intersection of faith and public life. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Rebekah, and their three children.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw. I have on the show today a very good friend
0:06.7	Gabe Lions. Many of you probably know the name Gabe Lions. Gabe is the co-author of the book Good Faith
0:13.5	with his good friend, David Kiniman. You might especially know Gabe from their previous book, UnChristian.
0:21.2	UnChristian really blew up when it came out in 2007, blew up in a good way, talking about
0:28.3	kind of the the non-Christian's perspective on the church and it was a really sober in book. I
0:34.7	I'll never forget reading it when it came out and I was like, man, this the church does not have
0:39.1	the best reputation and we need to really consider what that means for faithfulness in our
0:45.7	as we live in in Babylon as exiles in Babylon like what does Babylon think of the exiles living
0:52.4	among them. So he's also written the book in the next Christians, which is like a manifesto for
0:58.0	how Christians can live faithfully and in a changing culture. Gabe is the founder and director
1:06.2	of Q Ideas, not QAnon. We talk about that. We talk about the possible need for rebranding which he
1:15.2	is trying to navigate. But Q Ideas is a learning community where Christian leaders from all around
1:22.8	the country, all around the globe really are able to come and discuss and engage with some of
1:28.9	the most controversial topics of our day. I just got back from the Q Ideas cultural summit
1:35.6	in Nashville just last week and it's always just such an amazing experience. Gabe, what I love
1:41.5	about Gabe is he's as you'll see, he's just super smart, super well read, very humble and yet bold.
1:48.5	Like I think he balances this courageous posture in our in our culture today while being very
1:56.9	thoughtful and very humble and being a good listener, a good dialogue or so. I'm super excited
2:02.0	about this podcast. I've tried to get Gabe on for a while. He made a joke and turned a podcast
2:06.2	and I called about it. He's like, how come I haven't been on before? I'm like, dude, I've asked you
2:09.2	like half a dozen times and you are always too busy. So I'm super excited about this conversation.
2:13.0	We talk about a lot of controversial stuff related to vaccines, pandemics. We dive a little
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