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🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Repeated studies show that the current media landscape is worsening polarization and weakening our ability to grasp truth. How do we escape getting trapped in our own “bespoke realities?” This Good Faith episode draws on a recent webinar led by Curtis and David French where they address how Christians can adopt better information habits.
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“Welcome to our new ‘Bespoke Realities” by David French (in the New York Times)
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0:00.0 | The Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host Curtis Chang and the Good Faith |
0:21.9 | Podcast is a production of Redeeming Babel and |
0:24.6 | it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world. |
0:30.9 | Now historically the news media has existed to help everyone make sense of the |
0:37.8 | world but increasingly we are living in a news environment that actually distorts the world for everyone. |
0:45.0 | Earlier this week David French and I discussed this dynamic |
0:49.0 | how the current media landscape creates echo chambers or what David calls bespoke realities |
0:56.2 | that distorts the world and we explored how Christians can take steps to escape these traps. |
1:05.0 | Now this was recorded during a webinar in conjunction with our faith and politics curriculum called The After Party. |
1:11.0 | And the conversation features a question and answer segment that is equally worth your time. |
1:16.4 | And that's why I decided to make it available to you by good faith listeners. |
1:20.5 | So sit down, get comfortable by the Good Faith Campfire and I'll be right back with David French after this. |
1:30.0 | Hi, this is Curtis. And one of the themes of the Good Faith Podcast is the importance of connecting, |
1:39.0 | the importance of gathering around the campfire. And there's one demographic that's especially important for and that's men. |
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2:02.0 | men's retreats with the mission to connect men with |
2:06.1 | our Heavenly Father and with one another. |
2:09.3 | Soli Business creates environments and experiences that really for many lead to transformational encounters |
2:14.6 | with Jesus and introduces men to new ways of living out their Christian faith in the marketplace, |
2:20.8 | in their families, churches, and communities. |
2:24.0 | So if you are long for more like in life, |
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