Does loneliness fuel misinformation? Tesla wants to build a robot army. The movie Ratings

board has pulled back the curtain on how it approaches hot button topics, and the American

Orthodox Church seems to be growing at an unprecedented rate. These are stories we will discuss,

and we will also address some of your excellent questions.

I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

And filling in for Scott Ray, who is at the evangelical theological society this week,

is the one and only Rick Langer, who is almost becoming a co-host at this point.

He's bailing us out so many times.

But this is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update brought you by Talibsco Theology,

Biola University.

Rick, thanks for coming back, man.

Hey, so glad to be here with you, Sean.

Well, you sent me this first article, and it's so intriguing to me because there's a new

study that suggests in our age of misinformation,

and I'm not going to spend half a second on convincing people that we live in an age of

misinformation, but suggesting there might be a link between the loneliness epidemic,

which we have seen really around the emergence of the smartphone and kind of

the earlier 2000s, it started to grow in many ways exacerbated by COVID. But the title said,

it does, how does loneliness fuel information? It doesn't say does loneliness fuel information.

The article says, how does it?

And at one point it says in Canada, 13% of people over the age of 15, meaning more than 1 and 10 Canadians, report often or always feeling lonely.

This number jumps to 1 and 4 for young people 15 to 24 years old.

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