Living in A Post-Truth World with Os Guinness
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: Os explains how a Western culture that continues to cut our Christian roots leaves us with a “cut flower society” (5:30); fear is the predominant global emotion, but Os is optimistic because the gospel says to “have no fear” (9:00); the problem of Christians not thinking and living Christianly (11:30); the danger of a post-truth America spelling the end of freedom (19:30); issues of Christophobia and the importance of not having a victim mentality (23:30); the importance of standing for truth for an audience of One before the Lord (29:00); the unlikely alliance between the liberal left and Islam in the West (39:30); how to respond to the ABC moment we are living in [Anything But Christianity] (48:30); the need for Christians to start thinking and develop a Christian mind (53:00); what faith will replace Marxism in China? (55:00).
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| 1:05.5 | And as most of you know by now, this is less lean forward, didacticactic more lean back conversational and today is no |
| 1:15.6 | exception as I have an opportunity to talk to someone that my kids have known about as long as I |
| 1:22.3 | can remember they have heard the name Oz Guinness they have have seen his books lying around, and many of them, one sitting in the studio right now, said, |
| 1:33.9 | I want to hear his voice. |
| 1:36.0 | So this will be the first time that he gets to hear the voice of Oz Guinness, who's an author, a social critic. |
| 1:43.4 | He is also the great,great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin Brewer. |
| 1:50.0 | Oz was born in China, and he was the son of medical missionaries, |
| 1:59.0 | and he actually witnessed the climax of the great cultural revolution in China |
| 2:05.1 | and was expelled with many others in |
| 2:08.8 | 1951 |
| 2:09.6 | Oz has done all kinds of things he was a freelance reporter with the BBC |
| 2:15.0 | He is currently a senior fellow at the Oxford Center for Christian |
| 2:19.9 | apologetics in Oxford. And I think of Oz as a prophetic voice to our generation, and I'm |
| 2:27.1 | absolutely delighted to have you on the Hank Unplugged podcast today, Oz. Well, Hank, it's a real delight to talk to you again. Thank you |
| 2:36.8 | for having me. And you've written so many books. They litter my studio. They litter my office. |
| 2:43.0 | They litter my home. But I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean that in a good way. I |
| 2:48.7 | mean, I always keep them around. I loved your book, Fit |
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