Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivannis and this is Dialin.

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I'm excited about this episode as I sit down with Dr. Carl Truman.

Dr. Truman is a professor of biblical and religious studies and is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant intellectuals of the modern day.

He has authored over a dozen books and in particular wrote the bestseller,

The Rise and Fall of the Modern Self, published by Crossway.

In this episode, we talk about the world we live in today, how we live in a context that is

highly politicized, highly sexualized, and Dr.

Truman will provide for us a level of insight that you're not going to want to miss.

Let's dial in.

Dr. Truman, thank you for sitting down.

You know, one of my favorite books growing up, even in the last few years, was how we got to

now by Stephen Johnson.

And what Stephen Johnson does is he traces, I believe, seven inventions and how they

have a historical route and how that's impacted the world that we live in today.

So for example, he takes the printing press. And the printing

press didn't just make it so that more people could read. He said more people needed eyeglasses,

because never before had people realized they can't see words on a page. And as I think about how we got

to now, we live in a highly sexualized world with transgenderism, homosexuality, radical politics.

The question I have for you that you are an expert at in your writing is how did we get to where we're at now culturally?

What would be your response there?

Well, in many ways, there's no simple answer to that question, but we can get a

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