You're listening to a special weekend edition of The World and Everything in It. I'm Nick Einker.

Early in the new documentary Truth Rising, about 15 minutes in, the film returns Oz Guinness

to a small study center in the Swiss Alps that shaped a generation of Christian thinkers more than half a century ago.

It's a brief segment about two minutes, but it frames much of what follows.

It was nearly 60 years ago when I first drove up into the Alps and walked through the doors of LaBrie.

LaBrie was where my faith was deepened and expanded,

where I was mentored by the Christian visionary, Francis Schaefer. It was where I met my beautiful

and beloved wife, Jenny. I spent countless hours in and around these mountains, hiking,

thinking, debating, praying.

And it is here that my faith, my family heritage, and my own sense of calling, all came together.

Our guest this weekend is Oz Guinness, author, social critic, and co-host of Truth Rising,

alongside the Colson Center's John Stone Street.

Oz Guinness was just out of college when he traveled to LeBrie, and for five decades,

he would help Christians to think about culture, freedom, and the future of the West,

writing widely on the ideas that shape public life.

And in this conversation, we do cover quite a lot. The long march of ideas that now shape

the West, today's appetite for strong leaders, the forgetting of first principles and what

he calls our cut-flower civilization. But we begin right about where the documentary does in Switzerland,

those formative years and what they reveal about the challenges of our own moment.

That's coming up right after this.

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