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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Breaking Free from Cultural Captivity in Marriage with Dr. John West Ep. 696

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Christianity

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Dr. Kim and John West discuss "Stockholm Syndrome Christianity" and how cultural captivity can pull Christians away from biblical truth. They explore the impact of these influences on marriage, from weakened faithfulness to the generational effects of broken promises on children. The conversation highlights the need for intentionality in guarding our hearts, shaping our children's worldview, and staying rooted in truth. Listeners will be encouraged to build marriages that mutually support, advocate, and thrive in a world that often pulls in the opposite direction.

 

Episode Highlights:

As believers, what we are consuming directly affects how boldly we live out our faith.

Too many believers aren't prioritizing biblical truth and their relationships reflect their culture more than their faith.

The church has not been immune to cultural influences. 

Culture tells us that feelings trump biblical truth.

 

Quotes from Today's Episode:

If you live your life oriented towards God's truth, it's designed for our flourishing.- John West

Every spouse needs to be their partner's biggest advocate.- John West

The impact on kids from broken marriages is traumatic. - John West

If you have a certain feeling, you don't have to act it out. - John West

If you're listening to a never-ending stream of lies, you're going to become very reticent about speaking up or living based on your Christian beliefs.- John West

What I saw in the christian community is a lot of christians being culturally captive. - John West

If you're a christian, especially in industries, you spend a lot of your life around cultural captors. 

Many christians have adopted this secular view that sex isn't to be reserved for marriage.- John West

If you have a diet in your entertainment consumption for you and your kids, that everyone's doing it- it's normalized, it's going to affect how you live. -John West

It's really important to be in the world, not of the world. -Dr. Kim

You need to be wise enough and intentional enough to know that putting that stuff inside of you is going to have an impact- and impact your kids.- John West

The number 1 thing is you need to ask yourself- who is really raising your kids?

Couples' Conversation Guide:

As you reflect on your marriage relationship, where do you see culture influencing you the most?

Are there biblical truths you've found harder to live out in today's world? Why?

Do you believe there are any "outdated" parts of the Bible?

Who or what has the largest influence on your marriage?

Who or what has the largest influence on your children?



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0:00.0

Well, if you're a Christian, that's going to have an impact. At the very least, you're going to get an increasing disconnect between what you think is true and what you think everyone else believes and what you think the facts of the world are.

0:11.1

So if you listen to media sources that never-endingly say, well, you can't do anything about your sexual feelings, you just have to act out on them, and that in fact everyone knows and

0:20.9

science shows that same-sex marriage is fine.

0:23.9

If you're listening to a never-ending stream of lives like that, at the very least, you're

0:28.9

going to become very reticent about speaking up or living based on your Christian beliefs.

0:34.9

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0:49.8

Welcome to today's awesome marriage podcast.

0:51.9

I am so glad you've decided to join us today because I have a special guest in the studio, Dr. John West.

0:58.2

Dr. West is vice president of Discovery Institute in Seattle. He's the co-founder of its Center for Science and Culture.

1:04.8

He is an award-winning author and filmmaker. He has written and edited 13 books and directed a dozen documentaries. I love the topic

1:13.3

we're diving into today. It is secularism and marriage. His newest book is Stockholm Syndrome

1:19.2

Christianity. So let's go to the studio and meet Dr. West right now. Well, John, welcome to the

1:25.3

Awesome Marriage Podcast. I have been so looking forward to this interview.

1:28.6

Thank you for making time for us, and it's good to see you today.

1:32.4

Jim, thanks for having me.

1:34.2

It's very good.

1:35.0

Well, let's just kind of jump right in.

1:36.6

Let's talk about the Stockholm Syndrome, Christianity.

1:41.0

What is it?

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