Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

Today's podcast is a panel discussion on cultural apologetics with Trevin Wax, Rebecca McLaughlin,

Keith Plummer, and Andrew Wilson. It was recorded at our 2025 National Conference.

Well, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here for this panel discussion on cultural apologetics.

I'm Trevin Wax, and we have here Rebecca McLaughlin.

We have Keith Plummer and Andrew Wilson.

And we hope to have a conversation this afternoon about cultural apologetics as a tool for evangelism,

for discipleship, helping people who need Jesus,

creating different avenues and paths that the Spirit can use to bring people to Jesus,

but also as a tool for discipleship, helping people who may have grown up in the church

or who are new in the faith, understand just what it is about

the gospel that makes us stand out in the world so that we can become disciples who make more

disciples because we look more and more like our Savior Jesus Christ, who we worship, who we

adore and who we want to see other people worshiping and adoring.

And so we're going to kick off this conversation with the question of what is cultural

apologetics?

Apologetics is a word that has been used for decades for a long time now about defending

the Christian faith.

And so you're probably aware of what that word is, but the first question that comes

up whenever we are talking about this topic, or because all of four of us are Keller Center

Fellows, the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics is, the question is, what's cultural apologetics and how is it distinguished

from traditional apologetics? And so, Keith, I'll start with you. Just how do you answer

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