Junior Doctor Foundations - episode 3: Navigating culture and engaging with social media

Welcome to the third episode in this new mini-series, Junior Doctor Foundations, released as part of CMF’s 1st incision podcast. 

We kick-start this mini-series with six episodes focusing on how to thrive as a Christian junior doctor living and working in a culture described as a ‘Digital Babylon’. 

 Life in the twenty-first century is accelerated and more complex than ever before. As Christians, especially junior doctors, it can feel like we are exiles living in a culture hostile to our faith. So how might we keep running the race of faith despite all the challenges?

Today we are unpacking how we engage with culture and social media. 

Your host is Lizzy Kennedy (a junior doctor based in Devon); she is joined by two guest speakers London based junior doctors Ben Chang (an emergency department trainee, speaker and writer) and Sally Barker (in her second foundation year as a trainee doctor and co-creator of medical podcast series A to Easy). 

Faith for Exiles:
The book Faith for Exiles inspired this podcast series. Written by members of the Barna Research Group who have interviewed around 100,000 young adults, it focuses on what we can learn from the practices of those young people who have kept going with their faith.

 To find out more about the book Faith for Exiles, check out  faithforexiles.com/   

You can find more about the CMF research on this topic here at cmf.li/ResilientDisciple

Book recommendations discussed in this podcast: 

Ben Chang’s upcoming book Christ and the Culture Wars: Speaking for Jesus in a World of Identity Politics is due to be released in May 2023: christianfocus.com/products/3095/christ-and-the-culture-wars. He blogs at benchangblog.com. The Message of the Sermon on the Mount by John Stott The Contemporary Christian: An Urgent Plea for Double Listening by John Stott A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders by Mark Sayers.  12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You by Tony Reinke. Virtually Human: Flourishing In A Digital World by Ed Brooks and Pete Nicholas.  The Robot Will See You Now: Artificial Intelligence and the Christian Faith, edited by John Wyatt and Stephen N. Williams. Live No Lies by John Mark Comer Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Freedom in Christ course (ficm.org.uk) by Neil T. Anderson and Steve Goss.   Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung A Better Story, God, Sex and Human Flourishing by Glynn Harrison. 

CMF pastoral support: 

 Find out more about CMF’s support for junior doctors at  cmf.org.uk/juniors

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