Trendy or Traditional?: Episode 840
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
What your style aesthetic says about you, plus finding value in entertainment, and how to be a better listener.
Featured musical artist: Nathan Tasker
Roundtable: Trendsetters and Old Souls
Fashion choices, home decor, life hacks, music and more. All of these are indicators of our culture — or our resistance to it. When it comes to being current or wishing for times past, where do you fit in? Our guests describe their place on the cultural continuum, talk through the pros and cons, and suggest how to appreciate people who are different from yourself.
Culture: What Good Entertainment Teaches Us
We can learn a lot from the entertainment we consume — especially films and television. Understanding a culture, or someone’s unique experience, or even learning about history — all of these can be accomplished by watching a well-told story. This week our Plugged In experts address how movies can be good conversation starters, and they’ll give us some of their best recommendations to get us going.
Becoming a Screen-Savvy Family: How to Navigate a Media-Saturated World–and Why We Should
Inbox: Am I Talking Too Much?
Our listener says that when she gets together with friends, she finds herself talking too much. She wants to be a better listener, but how? One of our counselors weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:19.8 | And we are in our year-end giving campaign here |
| 0:22.9 | at Focus on the Family and Boundless, and your gift this year is going to be doubled in order |
| 0:28.9 | to further the work of Boundless as we minister to young adults. |
| 0:33.2 | How do you give? |
| 0:34.0 | Go to Boundless.org slash donate. |
| 0:36.6 | You can give today, and your gift will be matched |
| 0:39.6 | by a generous donor who has offered to put up that financial resource in order to stretch |
| 0:45.1 | gifts even further. So boundless.org slash donate, you have the opportunity to take us into the new |
| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. |
| 1:00.1 | Boundless Show. |
| 1:10.8 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. We are back with you. And now in March. So welcome to March alongside of all of us. As I often do, what is coming up later on in the show. For our inbox, we have a girl who feels like whenever she gets together with |
| 1:28.3 | other women, she ends up doing most of the talking. Hey, points for self-awareness. That's good. |
| 1:34.2 | But she wants to know, how can she learn to be a better listener? So one of our counselors is going to |
| 1:38.3 | weigh in on that. And then for our culture segment, our own Adam Holtz and Paul Asay from |
| 1:43.8 | plugged in here at Focus on the |
| 1:45.6 | Family are joining us to discuss the value of good entertainment. Like, is there good |
| 1:51.5 | entertainment? How can we get value out of maybe watching movies, watching TV series, having great |
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