Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host, Scott Ray, professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology.

And I'm your co-host, Sean McDow. I'm an author, speaker, and apologetics professor at Biola University.

We're here with our special guest today, Dr. Oz Guinness. Oz has had a long time ministry of speaking and writing.

He's the author of more than 25 books. He's been a public policy

consultant, international relations consultant. He is one of the primary most insightful people in the Christian community today on the

intersection of faith, culture, and public policy.

So I was delighted to have you with us.

Thanks for joining us today. So what I delighted to have you with us. Thanks for joining us today.

So I want to start out with a couple of things.

You've maintained in a lot of your writing

that the three most important issues facing the global community.

Are, will the West continue secularizing?

Will Islam modernize peacefully?

And what worldview will replace Marxism as the dominant win in China?

I know this is a hazardous business, but play profit, if you would, for a minute, and

where 20 years from now, how do you think we will you would

20 years from now how do you think we will have answered those questions?

Well Scott let me make clear I don't say those are most important.

I'm saying those are three of the issues where grand global question has a religious

dimension. Whereas many people, if you move into international relations, they ignore the religious

dimension, which is kind of the X factor, it is so crucial.

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