Latest Christian politics Podcast Episodes
What does biblical masculinity actually look like?
Tension - April 29, 2024 10:58 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsThere's been a lot of talk recently about the femininity of the American church. In this week's episode of the podcast, we answer an important question a listener sent in: What the heck does Biblical masculinity look like? __________________ Follow us on social: http://instagram.com/jonathan...
The hardest part of loving your neighbor
Tension - April 22, 2024 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsWhy is it so dang hard for people to love their neighbor? It seems like on of Jesus's easiest commands. But if 'love your neighbor' is so easy, why do we suck at it so often? This week we look at two ends of the pendulum for why it's hard to love our neighbor and try to find a way to get better...
Does the Bible actually say only God can judge us? (or how Tupac got it wrong...)
Tension - April 15, 2024 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsTupac told us only God can judge us. But does the Bible actually say that? This week we expand on how we love people like Jesus and look at what the Bible says about "judging" other people. __________________ Follow us on social: http://instagram.com/jonathan_carone http://instagram.com/er...
How do we actually love people like Jesus?
Tension - April 08, 2024 10:53 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsYou hear it all the time - we just wanna love people like Jesus. But what does that actually look like? This week we look at the tension between speaking truth and loving people and look at how Jesus did both as our example moving forward. __________________ Follow us on social: http://inst...
We need to talk about the new prosperity gospel
Tension - April 01, 2024 10:49 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsIt's got cooler clothes and a better marketing plan than the prosperity gospel we grew up around, but it's potentially just as dangerous. In the opener to Season 10, we talk about how the American church has swung the pendulum from young, restless and reformed all the way to the other side and ...
An unsexy conversation about finding contentment (plus an update on the future of the show)
Tension - March 11, 2024 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsThis month we're not tackling anything controversial or hard hitting. Instead, we talk about what it looks like to find contentment in the midst of life's anxieties and how a simple biblical phrase can take on new meaning. And we give you an update on the future of the show. __________________...
How should Christians approach the southern border crisis?
Tension - February 12, 2024 11:42 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsDid you know only 12% of evangelicals cited the Bible as their primary influence when thinking about immigration? Evangelicals turn to the media to form their views on the topic more than they rely on the Bible, their local church, or Christian leaders - combined. So how should Christians appro...
An uncomfortable conversation about race, religion, and politics
Tension - January 15, 2024 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsIf you grew up in the evangelical movement, you've heard it said that Christians vote Republican. The only problem with that is 86% of Black Christians vote Democrat. So which is it? In this month's episode, we talk about why we believe it's not theology that influences our view of government, ...
How do we approach apologetics, Christians we disagree with, and church leaders who leave the faith?
Tension - December 18, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsYou all sent in so many amazing questions for our Culture War Mailbag that we couldn't get to all of them in that Q&A episode. We're back this month with a bonus episode answering: (10:04) What's the role of apologetics in our faith and how do we keep from turning into debate bros? (19:41) How...
Mental health, medication, and the stigma around both
Tension - November 20, 2023 11:39 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsThis isn't the bonus episode we thought we'd be making this week but it's the one we felt like we needed to make. This week, as we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving, we wanted to pull back the curtain and have a candid conversation about mental health and some of the stigmas around it, especi...
Can (or should) Christians celebrate Halloween?
Tension - October 30, 2023 10:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsEric has been asking to do this episode for two dang years. So in true Halloween fashion, he's playing the role of host and Jonathan is playing the role of Eric. But seriously - this is a topic people always talk about each year. You've probably already read at least one rant on Facebook about ...
Answering your Culture War questions
Tension - October 23, 2023 10:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsWe invited you to send in your culture war questions and goodness, you did. In this week's episode, we're talking Israel, former President Trump, cultural marxism, churches who have been politically co-opted, something about Hobby Lobby, and Eric goes on another rant. Plus we discuss how we ap...
What do we do with good "fruit" from people who have done bad things?
Tension - October 16, 2023 10:27 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsThere are pastors who have done terrible things. There are Christian organizations who have engaged in horrible practices. But despite those things, they have still produced things that were good - strong, biblical based teaching; engaging mission work; great music. What do we do with those thi...
Scandals, cover ups, and how they keep happening
Tension - October 09, 2023 10:23 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsIf you're in or around the church space in America, you've heard of all the scandals that have happened in recent years. From Driscoll to the Duggars, Hillsong to Harvest, there have been scandals, cover ups, and all sorts of general yucky-ness. But why do these keep happening? How does the sa...
The real enemy of the church today
Tension - October 02, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsWe've all been taught our culture is at war with Christianity. But what if it's not? What if our culture doesn't even care about Christianity anymore? How does that change things? This week we talk about what we believe is the real enemy of the church today and how that perspective shift impac...
Let's talk about woke Christianity
Tension - September 25, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsOn one side of the aisle, you have Christians who want to ignore the things going on around us in the name of "just preaching the Gospel." On the other, you've got Christians who want to ignore core tenets of church history while focusing on "just loving like Jesus." But what if both sides of ...
Boycotts, cancel culture, and the hypocrisy of it all
Tension - September 18, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsIf you've been in the church for any length of time, you know we've been boycotting things since before boycotting was considered canceling. After all, the evangelical boycott of a company and the secular canceling of a person is essentially the same thing. But where did boycotts originate from...
How do Christians survive a culture war?
Tension - September 11, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsIn our culture, we have two groups on the extremes who are at war with each other. One side is waging war against anything that doesn’t explicitly promote white, evangelical Christian fundamentalism. The other views any type of religious conviction as bigotry and hatred. This week we talk about...
The one shift we all need to make when thinking about church
Tension - June 26, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsThe way we view church has changed. The average "committed" church goer attends less than two Sundays per month and that number is quickly approaching only once per month. On top of that, of the people who *do* go to church, 40% are now going to a different church than they went to before the pa...
The single biggest thing missing from the American church
Tension - June 19, 2023 11:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsWe talk a lot about the problems in the evangelical church in America. In today's episode, we dive into the root of so many of those issues and give you a perspective shift that will change how you read the Bible and view Christianity. __________________ Follow us on social: http://instagram....
What does Jesus teach us about hard times, grief, and losing loved ones?
Tension - June 12, 2023 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsIf the last few years have taught us anything, it's that we're all walking around with layers of grief we aren't processing. We've lost loved ones in the pandemic. We've lost friends to the changes in our culture. We've lost ... you fill in the blank. And as Christians, we're never really taugh...
Why is the church so obsessed with being persecuted?
Tension - June 05, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsFrom the martyr obsession of the late 90s to the culture war fighters of today, the church - especially in America - has this weird obsession with being persecuted. But are we actually persecuted? Or does the culture at large just no longer represent us in the majority? In this week's episode...
Another purity culture episode
Tension - May 29, 2023 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsWe can't do a season without hitting on Purity Culture at least once! Boys who grew up in church were taught to bounce their eyes when looking at girls because, y'know, every girl is a sexual temptation just by existing. How do we stop viewing the opposite sex as sexual first as opposed to jus...
How should Christians view law enforcement and government systems?
Tension - May 22, 2023 11:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsThis week is the three year anniversary of George Flloyd's murder that kicked off a summer of racial unrest. During that time we all lived in the tension of one side saying to support police no matter what and the other side saying all cops are bad. But what does the Bible actually say about po...
How do we balance our emotions with the truth of the Bible?
Tension - May 15, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsIn the church, we often focus on the mind (knowledge) or on our actions (behavior) but never about the thing that influences those two (emotions). Because we should cling to the truth of scripture, we were taught to completely ignore the the idea that people make decisions based on the way they...
How do we deconstruct our faith without deconverting?
Tension - May 08, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsAs we begin to take a fresh look at our faith, it's easy to go from the religious fundamentalism we grew up around and turn that into fundamentalism against Christianity. In the first episode of our new format, we look at the tension between deconstructing our faith and deconverting from it and...
BONUS: Let's talk about weed PLUS a huge, gigantic, life-altering announcement about the show
Tension - April 20, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsAfter our episode on Christians and alcohol last season, we got a lot of questions about cannabis use as Christians. Today we attempt to tackle that topic while also giving you a gigantic, life altering announcement about the show. If you don't care about weed but want to hear about the announc...
How should you respond if you've been hurt by the church?
Tension - February 27, 2023 11:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsThe church is supposed to be a place of refuge - one where we can follow Jesus together with other believers. But unfortunately that isn't always the case. This week we give four responses for you to walk through as you begin to process the hurt you've experienced. For a FREE week of Better H...
How should Christians respond to those who have experienced church hurt?
Tension - February 20, 2023 11:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsIt seems like everywhere we look, people are talking about how they've been hurt by the church. Many of us have experienced it ourselves. But how should we respond when someone tells us the church has hurt them? This week we give you three ways to respond when you're having those conversations...
Can married people be friends with someone of the opposite gender?
Tension - February 13, 2023 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsSome call it the Billy Graham Rule, others the Mike Pence Rule. Regardless of the name, there's an idea amongst Christians that married people can't be friends with someone of the opposite gender. It even got Matt Chandler suspended. But is a hard rule against it really the way it should be? Th...
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