Latest Staycurious Podcast Episodes
Use or Lose Your Rights: Kristen Waggoner | Episode 286
THINQ Media Podcast - June 25, 2024 17:04 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsAre you aware of your constitutional rights when it comes to exercising your faith? In this episode, Kristen Waggoner, the CEO, President and General Counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom, tells us about her work to protect fundamental freedoms and promote the inherent dignity of people all o...
Identity, Teens & Gender: Preston Sprinkle & Helena Kerschner | Episode 285
THINQ Media Podcast - June 18, 2024 14:12 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsDoes social contagion play a part in young people's gender identity? In today's episode, we’re digging into our content library to share one of our most popular talks that we presented several years ago on the topic of Identity, Teens & Gender. Preston Sprinkle, a biblical scholar, intervi...
Countering the Gender Agenda: Vernadette Broyles | Episode 284
THINQ Media Podcast - June 11, 2024 14:35 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsDo you know someone who is wrestling with wanting to transition genders? How do we navigate this complicated topic from a biblical worldview? In today’s episode, we’re featuring a talk from Vernadette Broyles, an attorney who has dedicated herself to working against the accelerating gender age...
Fight for Female: Lisa Bevere | Episode 283
THINQ Media Podcast - June 04, 2024 14:31 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsHow do we value both male and female? Lisa Bevere, co-founder of Messenger International, helps us put into perspective the history of the LGBTQ movement and how it’s come to undermine how God very uniquely created us to be male and female. Listen in as she shares with bold conviction and ...
Building Resilience: Rebekah Lyons | Episode 282
THINQ Media Podcast - May 31, 2024 14:48 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings“We are not just people who bounce back; we are people who weather storms throughout the entirety of our lives.” In this THINQ episode, author and speaker Rebekah Lyons brings a powerful message on Building Resilience in a time where we continue to see a growing mental health epidemic and the...
Submitting to Freedom: Jonathan Pokluda | Episode 281
THINQ Media Podcast - May 23, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsWhat does it look like to live a life of true freedom? In this episode, Author and Pastor Jonathan “JP” Pokluda draws us nearer to God and the freedom He has for us. JP brings the hard truth of the gospel and challenges us to submit to God's authority. Listen in as JP tells us about the he...
A Holy Departure from a Fast Faith: Alicia Britt Chole | Episode 280
THINQ Media Podcast - May 21, 2024 17:22 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsDo you live in a "fast faith" or a "sacred slow"? Author and speaker Alicia Britt Chole calls out how we’ve normalized being busy and distracted in our culture. But what is that doing to our hearts, minds, and souls? Tune in as she encourages us to embrace boredom, become more attentive to...
Controversial Holiness: Luke LeFevre | Episode 279
THINQ Media Podcast - May 17, 2024 19:47 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsIf you aren't convicted about the small things in your life, will you be convicted about the big things? Revivalist Luke LeFevre gives a unique perspective as a young adult ministry leader about how the next generation is gradually descending into compromise because they don’t realize how far...
Finding Faith Through Atheism: Dr. Denis Alexander | Episode 278
THINQ Media Podcast - May 07, 2024 14:42 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsDo you believe science has its roots in Christian thought? In this episode, Gabe talks with Dr. Denis Alexander, Emeritus Director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. They discuss what science can and can’t tell us. They ...
The Intersection of Dreams, Memories and Faith: Dr. Connie Svob | Episode 277
THINQ Media Podcast - May 02, 2024 21:40 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsSince Biblical times, God has used dreams to talk to people. In this episode, Gabe interviews Connie Svob, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Whitaker Scholar in Developmental Neuropsychiatry. They discuss the sign...
A Finely Tuned Universe: Dr. Luke Barnes | Episode 276
THINQ Media Podcast - May 01, 2024 15:19 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsIs there intelligent life outside of earth? In this episode, Gabe poses this question and many others to Dr. Luke Barnes, a theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist and postdoctoral researcher at Western Sydney University. Dr. Barnes is a Christian whose faith inspires him in his work to explo...
Social Perceptions of God Across Different Religious and Cultural Worldviews: Dr. Kathryn Johnson | Episode 275
THINQ Media Podcast - April 24, 2024 09:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsIn this episode, Gabe discuss people’s perceptions of God with Dr. Kathryn Johnson, an associate research professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. Dr. Johnson has developed a scale for measuring how people think about God, based on the theory that people generall...
Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? | Dr. Ian Hutchinson | Episode 274
THINQ Media Podcast - April 23, 2024 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsIn this episode, Gabe speaks with Dr. Ian Hutchinson, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, about his research in the field of fusion energy and how it relates to his faith in God. As a plasma physicist, Dr. Hutchinson describes the marvels in the universe created by God he’s witn...
How Children View God and the Afterlife: Dr. Melanie Nyhof | Episode 273
THINQ Media Podcast - April 18, 2024 16:35 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsDo you remember your very first image or concept of God? Your first thoughts about death and the afterlife? In this episode, Gabe talks to Dr. Melanie Nyhof, a developmental psychologist at Carthage College who conducts cross-cultural developmental research examining the development of religi...
Contributions Science Can and Cannot Make in Understanding Morality | Dr. David Lahti, Episode 272
THINQ Media Podcast - April 16, 2024 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings“...in no way could [the theory of evolution] replace, much less undermine, morality,” says Dr. David Lahti, Assistant Professor of Biology at Queens College, City University of New York. In this episode, Gabe has a fascinating conversation with David, covering everything from the learned beh...
How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Human Connection: Dr. Rosalind W. Picard | Episode 271
THINQ Media Podcast - April 11, 2024 18:24 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsIn this episode, Gabe interviews Dr. Rosalind Picard, a renowned scientist, inventor, engineer, and member of the faculty of MIT's Media Lab. Rosalind helps us define and understand affective computing and what role empathy, emotion, and human connection have in relation to A.I. and other tec...
What It Means To Be Human: Dr. Curt Thompson | Episode 270
THINQ Media Podcast - April 09, 2024 21:36 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings“…the Bible gives us a grounding for what it means for us to be human, but science can give us a bigger window into the mechanics of how we then apply that meaning on a day-to-day basis,” says psychiatrist and author Dr. Curt Thompson. In this episode, Gabe continues our Science and Faith ser...
The Science of Spirituality: Lisa Miller | Episode 269
THINQ Media Podcast - April 04, 2024 21:52 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings“In the United States, we wait for people to bottom out,” says New York Times bestselling author and psychologist Lisa Miller. But she reminds us “we were built for this,” describing how God designed and equipped us with an awakened brain made of three circuits that we can access: We are guided....
Could Asbury Lead to Awakening? | Rebekah Lyons and Grant Skeldon
THINQ Media Podcast - March 03, 2023 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsPeople seem to be waking up. Awake to God’s heart, to hope and to the possibilities that what we’ve read about in days of old could happen again. Asbury University represents a place where the veil became thin and we want to have a conversation about it and what it may mean for all of us. What G...
Episode 267 | Our Top Moments from 2022
THINQ Media Podcast - December 22, 2022 15:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsIn this episode, Q Ideas president Gabe Lyons reflects on some of the most important moments at our events this year. As the year comes to a close, we've appreciated being able to go back, slow down, and think about some of this year's big ideas. While there are prevailing cultural narratives, ...
Episode 266 | The Devices That Form Us: Felicia Wu Song
THINQ Media Podcast - October 13, 2022 16:44 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsTechnology is forming us. Our longing for relationship makes our devices seem especially alluring, but do they give us what we long for? Moreover, who is technology inspiring us to become? Felicia Wu Song, professor at Westmont University, joins us to talk about these very questions. This ep...
Episode 265 | Overcoming Disconnection: Todd Hall
THINQ Media Podcast - October 08, 2022 13:53 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsIn one way or another, we've all experienced pieces of the loneliness epidemic in our nation. While there's a myriad of reasons we can attribute this to, professor and author Todd Hall has a keen insight. Perhaps we're in the way of our own success. We seek information when what we need is relat...
Episode 264 | Uncovering Your Gifts: Tony Cook
THINQ Media Podcast - September 29, 2022 08:03 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsOver the past few years, there's been an explosion in personality theories. Do these theories help us love our neighbor and communities better? Rev. Dr. Tony Cook from Lutheran Hour Ministries, has helped put together a guide to help Christians discern their tangible gifts. Gifts should be used...
Episode 263 | Understanding How We Think: Justin L. Barrett
THINQ Media Podcast - September 22, 2022 11:02 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsAs James K.A. Smith says, "you are what you love." In a similar manner, what you pay attention to forms how you think. Justin Barrett, founder of Blueprint 1543, joins us to talk about how we think and process new ideas. What ideas do we hold that we should keep? How do we discern when we shoul...
Episode 262 | Hope in a Time of Economic Disruption: Anne Rathbone Bradley
THINQ Media Podcast - September 15, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsWith rising costs from inflation, President Biden announcing student loan forgiveness, and questions about an impending recession, the economy has been on the forefront on many people's minds. What should Christians be thinking about in regards to all these issues? Anne Rathone Bradley, author,...
Episode 261 | Why Pluralism Matters: John Inazu
THINQ Media Podcast - September 08, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsPolarization is at the center of many of the national and local conversations we're having. What we lack in commonality feels like a hinderence. But what if our differences could come together in a confident pluralism? John Inazu, co-editor of Uncommon Ground, tackles some of these questions in ...
Episode 260 | Encouraging Pastors: Josh Zeichik
THINQ Media Podcast - September 01, 2022 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsBarna research has shown that 42% of pastors have considered quitting full-time ministry in the past year. Issues like stress, loneliness, and political divisions are driving factors in these considerations. In this tumultuous few years, pastors are needing encouragement, both personally and pro...
Episode 259 | Managing Screen Time: Sissy Goff & David Thomas
THINQ Media Podcast - August 25, 2022 14:57 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsEvery smartphone will let you check your screen time. Many find the weekly reminder of the copious amounts of time spent jarring. For parents, the amount of screen time kids are consuming is even more front of mind. In this week's episode, Sissy Goff and David Thomas from Daystar Counseling Mini...
Episode 258 | Marketing Jesus: Jason Vanderground
THINQ Media Podcast - August 23, 2022 11:04 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsWhy has Christianity become more known for what it stands against than the love it invites people into? How did the world's greatest love story become known as a hate group? Many of the current issues we're facing were directly addressed by the words and life of Jesus. Jason Vanderground has be...
Episode 257 | Cultivating Happiness: Joy Marie Clarkson
THINQ Media Podcast - August 18, 2022 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratingsIn world bogged down by the 24/7 news cycle, cultivating happiness can seem like an impossible thing to do. It seems like there is always something bad happening no matter where we look. Joy Marie Clarkson, author of Aggressively Happy, shares 3 ways that she has found to begin to be a person tr...
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