Who are you? How do you think about yourself? Who do you want to be? And how do you want others to view you?

All of these questions relate to the broad topic of personal identity, an issue that has never been more relevant than it is today in our culture.

In my interview today, I'm talking with Brian Rosner about how a

cultural obsession with identity impacts us as Christians, and how we should think about that

through the lens of the Bible. Brian serves as the principal of Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia,

and is the author of many books, including How to Find Yourself, Why Looking Inward is not the answer from Crossway.

Let's get started.

Well, Brian, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.

Thanks, Matt. It's great to be with you.

So I think it's fair to say, and my sense is that most people listening would probably

have some sense of this, but our culture seems pretty obsessed with this topic, with this

issue of identity.

Do you think that's true?

Do you resonate with that?

Oh, absolutely.

Yes. Once you tune into it, you see it everywhere. So the advice to be true to

yourself, to be yourself is on everyone's lips. You'll see it from people in the media. You'll see

it at President Trump several years ago at his first commencement at Liberty

University. That's how he closed his speech. It's kind of Oprah, writ large. It also comes through

in some movies. So I love the Matt Damon movies. A number of them are about inscrutable characters,

really asking, who am I?

The born identity is the most obvious one, but there are some others.

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