Culture Wars: Have Christians Lost the Plot? with Ben Chang and Jonty Langley

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Are we stuck in an endless culture war? Has politics overshadowed Jesus in the Church? In this episode of Unbelievable?, host Andy Kind talks with Ben Chang and Jonty Langley about cancel culture, identity politics, and the Church’s role in these debates. Is cancel culture accountability or censorship? How should Christians engage with social justice and critical theory while staying true to biblical truth? Join us as we explore theology, scripture, and the shifting dynamics of power, oppression, and justice in today’s world. Follow today's guests: 🎙 Ben Chang, author of Christ and the Culture Wars and blogger here: https://www.benchangblog.com/ and 🎙 Jonty Langley, editor of Shibboleth magazine & co-host of Beer Christianity you can follow here: https://x.com/jontylangley

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0:25.9	forming disciples, resourcing churches, impacting society. Culture wars, cancel culture, critical theory.
0:34.1	Have Christians lost sight of the gospel by getting embroiled in political and
0:39.0	cultural battles? Is standing for truth now merely virtue signaling? Has free speech become a
0:45.8	battleground where faith is at risk, or is that just paranoia? And how should Christians respond
0:51.1	to a shifting culture that seems increasingly divided?
0:55.0	Hello and welcome to Premier Unbelievable, the show where we engage in respectful conversations that bridge the divide between faith,
1:04.0	skepticism and big ethical questions. I am your returning host, Andy Kind. And today we're talking about the culture wars. What are they?
1:15.1	Cancel culture, can we get past it? Postmodernism is a term that is often quoted, but what does it mean?
1:22.1	Are we using these phrases in a lazy way? And do we lose sight of one another whilst we do that? It's a conversation
1:29.7	that we definitely need to have. Have Christians become too caught up in the culture wars? Has politics
1:34.7	taken over from religion as the arena where we expend all our energy in debates about truth?
1:40.9	How much is critical theory reshaped how we think, speak and engage. And are we more concerned
1:47.3	with signaling our own virtue than loving our neighbor? Big questions. Well, joining me are two
1:53.5	sharp minds from different ends of the conversation spectrum. We have Ben Chang, author of Christ
2:00.1	and the Culture Wars, and Jon T. Langley, editor of
2:03.3	Shibboleth magazine and co-host of Bea Christianity. This is going to be an honest, thought-provoking,
2:10.0	and I've no doubt, still very civil by the end, conversation. Welcome to you both.
2:16.6	Hey, nice to see it. B.C. be here. Thank you very much for having us.
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