Seeing God in the Midst of Suffering [Featuring Rebecca St. James & Cubbie Fink]

Culture & Christianity: The Allen Jackson Podcast

Pastor Allen Jackson

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt forsaken or like God was silent in your struggle? In this episode, Pastor Allen Jackson is joined by Christian music artist Rebecca St. James and her husband, Cubbie Fink, former bassist of Foster the People. Together, they open up about the role of faith in seasons of waiting, pain, and uncertainty. They discuss how God shows up in the midst of struggle, what it means to live as a picture of redemption, and why now—more than ever—the Church must support creative work that upholds biblical truth.
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It’s up to us to bring God’s truth back into our culture. It may feel like an impossible assignment, but there’s much we can do. Join Pastor Allen Jackson as he discusses today’s issues from a biblical perspective.
Find thought-provoking insight from Pastor Allen and his guests, equipping you to lead with your faith in your home, your school, your community, and wherever God takes you.
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0:00.0	Well, welcome to culture and Christianity.
0:19.0	If you listen regularly, you kind of know the deal by now.
0:22.3	Our objective is to try to get church outside the walls of a worship service, that we take our faith
0:28.1	and we sprinkle it generously through our culture. I don't believe the goal is to hide in our
0:33.1	buildings and sing our favorite chorus and review our favorite passage. I think the intent of the church is to be an influence in culture,
0:40.3	not to scold culture, not to shame culture, but to make a case for what we believe and why we believe it
0:46.3	in a way that's so winsome that we transform culture.
0:50.3	It's been the assignment of the church for more than two millennia, and we're the 21st century edition.
0:56.0	So I'm delighted to introduce you to my guest today, Rebecca St. James, and your husband, Cubby Fink. Welcome.
1:03.0	Thank you, Pastor Allen.
1:03.9	You've been at church with us today, and you were gracious enough to hang around and do a podcast.
1:09.5	What a sweet-spirited church.
1:11.9	Like, I just, I don't know, I keep saying it all day long,
1:14.7	but just the engagement, the, I don't know,
1:18.8	sometimes you go into a church and it's like,
1:21.0	you have to kind of warm up the audience a little bit
1:22.9	to like really engage with worship or engage with God.
1:27.0	And they were just there, ready. Like they really want with worship or engage with God. And they were just there, ready.
1:29.4	Like they really want to worship.
1:31.8	And it just feels very authentic, truly authentically loving.
1:35.4	So just you've got a great culture here.
1:37.9	I had some similar feelings about you.
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