Living in a Post-Truth, Post-Christian World w/John S. Dickerson
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: how attending seminary as a hobby led Dickerson, an award-winning investigative journalist, to become a pastor (3:30); the post-truth shift from facts to feelings (7:10); the historic definition of racism and the post-truth reality of racism (13:30); millennial Americans' preference for socialism (17:30); the state of journalism today and the difficulties of being a Christian journalist (21:05); Dickerson believes the window of global peace is closing, but that in Christ, we can be a sign of hope to the nations (23:45); the growing problem of apathy in society, Christians included (26:40); Dickerson’s nine manifestos that Christians can embrace in a post-truth world (31:15); the need for Christians to equip our youth with Christian truth in the face of The Great Evangelical Recession (34:10); equipping Christians with biblical understanding and truth to become reproducing disciple makers for the church and change agents in the culture (38:15); I Am Strong: Finding God’s Peace and Strength in Life’s Darkest Moments (41:55); post-truth being chosen as the 2016 Oxford dictionary word of the year and the way that this paradigm shift is changing the course of Western civilization (52:15); the wealth and freedom that young Americans have inherited and the foundational principles they are rejecting (56:35); the Christian foundations of our modern universities (59:50); examining the differences between socialism and capitalism (1:01:55); warring ideologies, the gravitational center of the globe shifting to the East, and the abolition of Western civilization (1:07:30); examining the factors behind The Great Evangelical Recession, with so many young people leaving Christianity (1:15:25); the importance of Christian unity around the essentials of the faith and the dangers of needlessly dividing the body of Christ (1:18:15); the drying up of donor dollars, as the church is reaching the lowest levels of giving in generations (1:24:50).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to another edition of Hank Unplugged, the podcast that is bringing direct to you |
| 0:29.2 | some of the most interesting, informative, inspirational people on the planet. |
| 0:34.6 | And today, I have the privilege of interviewing someone that I think you |
| 0:40.3 | are going to really want to hear this is a conversation with John Dickerson John is a |
| 0:48.3 | pastor but he was also a prize-winning journalist. |
| 1:01.8 | In 2009, Tom Brokaw, Charles Gibson, and Anna Quindlin of Newsweek, |
| 1:06.0 | named his investigative reporting The Best in the Nation. |
| 1:10.4 | John is now a recognized voice in American Christianity. |
| 1:16.6 | He is a best-selling author of some books that I want to talk about during this podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | But before we get to all of that, I want to remind you that you have a part to play in the success of the Hank Unplugged podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | And that is, you can go to iTunes and give us a five-star rating. |
| 1:35.5 | When you do that, it ensures that so many more people around the globe hear the podcasts. |
| 1:39.0 | And you can also share the podcast with others. |
| 1:48.5 | And in that way, again, you play a part in the success of the Hank Unplugged podcast, which, by the way, oftentimes, is adapted for radio. |
| 2:00.2 | We play that as part of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, so there are a lot of ways in which this podcast is transforming the lives of people all over the planet. |
| 2:08.0 | John Dickerson, again, is a pastor and a journalist and an author and someone that I am delighted to have an opportunity to talk to during this edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast. |
| 2:13.3 | Hi, John. |
| 2:14.3 | Hey, Hank. |
| 2:14.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 2:16.3 | Oh, I'll tell you, I love your new book. |
| 2:18.3 | I really appreciated the great evangelical recession. |
| 2:21.3 | I want to talk about that. |
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