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Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

Special Edition: Year in Review with Various Guests

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9809 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week we are bringing you a special edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast featuring some of our favorite conversations that took place on the podcast in 2017. Whether you’ve heard them all or are just getting started, we assure you that this special edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast will be edifying for everyone.

Topics discussed include: Mary Eberstadt discussing a new secularist religion of our time and issues we’re facing due to the sexual revolution (1:00); Joe Dallas discussing the rising acceptance of gender fluidity today (14:50); Frank Beckwith discussing the watershed issue of our time: abortion (29:00); Clay Jones discussing the question of “Why does God allow evil?” (40:25); a conversation with Nathan Jacobs, director of the film Becoming Truly Human (56:10); Chris Wilde discussing the crucial conversation between Hank and their mutual friend Elijah that eventually led to CRI adapting the moniker of the ministry from Because Truth Matters to Because Life and Truth Matter (1:14:00); Donald Fairbairn discussing his book Life in the Trinity and how we as Christians can find true union with God (1:21:00).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to a special edition of the Hank Unplug podcast, where we will be bringing you a compilation of some of our favorite conversations that took place on the podcast over the past year.

0:35.7

This year, Hank has brought you out of the studio and into his study

0:40.3

for the Hank Unplugged podcast. We hope that you enjoy listening to the podcast as much as we do.

0:47.1

The Hank Unplug podcast was started in order to range farther and dive deeper into both

0:53.9

perennial and contemporary issues of interest to

0:57.6

thinking Christians with some of the most interesting and inspirational people in the world,

1:03.3

and it has far exceeded our expectations.

1:06.8

In this edition of Hank Unplugged, we will revisit some moments from the past year.

1:12.3

To begin, we will bring you to a conversation from the episode with Mary Eberstadt and a

1:18.1

discussion dealing with a new secularist religion of our time and issues we're facing due to

1:23.6

the sexual revolution. I'm looking forward to the conversation.

1:27.8

You're one of my favorite guests on the Bible Answer Man broadcast.

1:31.0

I think the work that you did, and it's dangerous to believe, is one of the great contributions

1:36.3

to Western civilization.

1:38.7

That's a big platitude, but what I mean by that is you're opening people's eyes to two things I think one is

1:46.9

something that's squarely in the blind spot of the West and that is the mass genocide of

1:52.0

Christians in the East and then there's a change as it were taking place in Western

1:58.5

civilization where Christian ideologies are being replaced by a new kind of fanatical religious ideology.

2:10.6

It's not as though we're going to materialism or secularism at its base, but we're going to a new ideology that has a lot to do with the

2:20.0

sexual revolution?

2:21.8

Yes, absolutely, Hank.

2:23.5

There's so much going on out there, but I think what's really new and unexpected is this

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