Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life Podcast where each week we talk about four rhythms

that help you reduce stress and anxiety and take charge of your emotional health. Rest,

restore, connect, create. These ideas come from Rebecca's best-selling book,

Rhythms of Renewal, trading stress and anxiety for a life of peace and purpose. So grab your

copy, invite your friends and let's live in rhythm.

Welcome back, I'm Rebecca. And I'm Gabe. And this is a special bonus episode.

Bonus episode. We're out to you by your truly end-game. Yeah, we're talking about some things

that we talk a lot about, but it doesn't always make its way into this conversation. Yeah, we don't

talk about culture on this podcast very often, but we are thinking about it every day, right Gabe?

I'm married to you. So I wake up six mornings out of seven with a link waiting for me in my

text thread from something he read that morning. He is like current event guru and it's good.

It's really good and it comes out through you. You try to convince yourself it's good. It's good.

This is a lot of information to wake up to, but it's critical thinking. It's all about

like seeing our culture through a lens that might always not be mainstream. It's just kind of having

the discernment radar on in a cultural moment of extreme shift, which is what we're all living through

right now. Yeah. And once a year, we kind of take a moment where we carve out two days,

used to be three this year, it's two, where we're delving into all of these topics and issues,

and we do it around an event we call the culture summit, which is our 15th annual QIDS conference.

And so we want to spend a few minutes today just talking about a few of the issues and topics.

We're going to be describing. Hopefully that encourages you and helps you know you're not alone

when you're thinking about these things that we're thinking about it. We're working on it. We're

trying to bring the best experts to help people like you be informed and educated, but also to let

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