There Are Still Good Reasons to Be Optimistic as Christians
The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
How can we remain optimistic as Christians in a culture that is increasingly hostile toward us? How does the social media environment exacerbate the problem? In this podcast form his appearance on the Stand to Reason broadcast, J. Warner offer reasons to celebrate our identity as Christians.
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| 0:00.0 | J. Warner Wallace is a cold-case homicide detective who's been investigating cold-case murders |
| 0:07.2 | in Los Angeles County for over a decade. |
| 0:09.4 | His work has been featured on Fox News, Dateline, and Core TV. |
| 0:12.6 | Now, we join him as he applies his investigative skills to making a case for Christiane. |
| 0:17.4 | Hey everyone, thanks for joining us at the Cold-case Christianity podcast, I am J. Warner |
| 0:23.7 | Wallace. |
| 0:24.7 | Okay, this week I'm going to play for you an episode that I did for a standard reason |
| 0:29.1 | for Greg Cogel on a week that he was gone from the standard reason podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | And I'm playing it because I think it touches on some things that I think are timely. |
| 0:37.8 | This is, we are post-election. |
| 0:40.9 | And the divisiveness we see in the country is pretty astounding, would you not agree? |
| 0:46.4 | And as I see the shift, the shift toward against anything traditional, anything that holds |
| 0:51.7 | toward Christian values, right, you'll see that they're changing terms on us. |
| 0:56.6 | They are starting to use. |
| 0:57.6 | Instead of calling us Christians, you'll hardly ever hear anybody in the mainstream media |
| 1:01.3 | call us anything short of Christian nationalists. |
| 1:04.0 | They really want to attack what they can point to as a pejorative to change the language |
| 1:11.1 | so that we are no longer identified the way we used to be. |
| 1:14.0 | Look, I think if you don't see that the culture is shifting and that there's actually |
| 1:18.4 | an overt effort to demonize Christianity, then you're not paying attention. |
| 1:25.8 | And that's just the sad truth of it. |
| 1:27.0 | But in the midst of all this, I'm learning with my wife, Suzy, the high value of optimism, |
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