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🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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A New Chapter in Millennial Church Attendance: “Patterns of attendance among younger generations can be especially important—and perplexing—for pastors to understand, in their own church and at large. Barna Group has studied the intersection of faith and culture for nearly four decades, with an emphasis on generational trends. This article explores recent data to help church leaders ground themselves in the present reality of church attendance across generations—especially Millennials—in 2022.”

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein: “Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal levels.”

The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul: “Ellul offers a penetrating analysis of our technological civilization, showing how technology—which began innocuously enough as a servant of humankind—threatens to overthrow humanity itself in its ongoing creation of an environment that meets its own ends.”

Nancy French’s entertainment suggestion tweet thread: “In the French house, David and I love to watch series. Frequently, people ask what good shows we've watched, so I thought I'd start a list (and I'll keep adding to it) of some of the binge-worthy TV we've enjoyed.”

Fasting: The Ancient Practices

by Scot McKnight: “Christianity has traditionally been at odds with the human body. At times in the history of the church, Christians have viewed the body and physical desires as the enemy. Now, Scot McKnight, best-selling author of The Jesus Creed , reconnects the spiritual and the physical in the ancient discipline of fasting.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Fade podcast. I'm David French with Curtis Chang. And we're going
0:26.0	to be answering your questions today. We're not postponing any announcements yet about the future
0:34.0	of the Good Fade podcast. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. But we've got today, we've got this
0:41.4	podcast. And next week, under the old way of doing things, stay tuned for the new way of doing
0:48.4	things. But for the second to last podcast, under the old system, we're going to answer your questions.
0:55.6	And you sent in a bunch and they were great, very thoughtful, very interesting. And we can't
1:02.4	get to them all. But we're going to try to get to as many as we can. And I'm just going to dive
1:07.8	right in Curtis because time is already wasting with ban with banter. So I'm not I'm not banter
1:15.0	at all. Actually, let me add what I've noticed me at what element of banter or more caveat here,
1:20.6	which is I returned from Germany, not just with thoughts about courage that you can listen to in
1:26.0	our previous podcasts, but also with a nasty German uber virus that sends little mucus fingers to
1:33.3	tickle my throat and unexpected moments. So if I break out in coughing, I apologize to listeners.
1:39.6	I'm doing my best to manage this. But yeah, German viruses, David, you don't want to mess with them.
1:46.3	Well, you sound better. You sound better, but just out of the blue, sometimes I will just start
1:52.4	hacking, coughing and then it'll go away. So caveat aside, that's our banter for the day.
1:58.0	Our audience has lots of grace. So yeah, you'll be fine. All right, let's let's get started.
2:04.8	And we got we actually got several messages along these lines. And in fact, I would say,
2:10.8	and I didn't forward them all to you, Curtis, but this was the single most common question
2:16.9	that I got. And I've gotten this question, not just in response to inquiries for solicitations for
2:23.2	and ask us anything podcast, but I get these questions just in the normal course of my life.
2:29.2	And it's just here, here it is in two sentences. Hi, David and Curtis, I have not been attending
2:34.8	church for several several years and want to start going again. Do you have any advice on
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