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Hey guys, welcome to relatable happy Wednesday. I hope everyone has had a wonderful week and that you had a great fourth of July.

On Monday, I talked to Abigail Shryer. She is Wall Street Journal journalist and she wrote a book called Irreversible Damage, The Transgender Cray Seducing Our Daughters.

It was a really insightful conversation and I just encourage you if you have not listened to it or watched it on YouTube to go do that, especially if you are a mom or plan to be a mom one day.

But really if you are just a person existing in this world, understanding the problem at least one perspective on the problem that really is threatening young people, but particularly and disproportionately young girls.

It's so important for us to just be aware of what's going on, especially in our school system.

So go back and listen to that today and on Friday, we are going to talk about culture wars and what the culture wars right now look like and why they are going to be a mom.

It exists and what we're supposed to do about them and these are going to be, I guess, as always, controversial episodes. Someone the other day said to me, you know, you have a lot of controversial takes, which is funny because I don't think that way at all.

When I am preparing these episodes, I'm not thinking, okay, here's my hot take. Here's the thing that's really going to be contentious to make people mad.

Anything I might, I might plan it in such a way to where I'm like, okay, I'm going to be super straightforward and dogmatic on this. And then I dial it back. I always try to soften the things that I say to be a little bit more gracious and open and forgiving than maybe I had originally planned or my immediate reaction when I read a news story.

I guess I was never to be controversial. It would be a lot easier like my life would be a lot easier if I was swimming downstream with the rest of culture, but instead you and I were like human salmon.

We got to swim upstream, which is not only really tiring to swim up stream, but also the bears try to getcha. It would be a lot easier to be like a catfish or a bass or something like that.

You know, just kind of like wading in the water is bottom feeder like a catfish, but we're not. We are human salmon and we are swimming upstream and even with the threat of bears.

We are called to go against the grain and to go against the current of culture. And like I said, it would be a lot easier if we didn't have to do that.

It would be so much easier to agree with the mainstream on everything and understand that it is not my desire to go against the grain for the sake of going against the grain or for the sake of saying something different.

My desire is not nuance. It's not to be controversial. It is not to be a contrarian. I actually really don't like it when people try to be contrarians. Those people are really hard to get along with.

I like to agree with people. However, we are beholden to the truth and the truth isn't always nuanced. Sometimes it is. The truth isn't always contrarian, but very often it is.

And that is what we are called to. And also understand that I realize that as a fallible and flawed human being that I have my own blind spots, I probably have my own places of hypocrisy and double think that I don't even realize in my prayer constantly is for a good reason.

I really don't want to be a prayer constantly is for God to give me wisdom. And for him to help me realize the spots where I am wrong. I don't desire to be wrong. My desire is to always be truthful and as just an individual, a fallible individual at that, my pursuit of truth, even with the power of the Holy Spirit and the grace of God is going to be imperfect.

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