Description: Immediately after last week’s school shooting in Nashville, opportunists used it to advance their favorite culture war narratives. Why does this happen after every tragedy, and why are we more likely to empathize with victims we identify closely with? Then, what impact will Donald Trump’s indictment have on the 2024 presidential race? Are his evangelical supporters finally ready to move on? And, can preaching really undo the damage and division caused by cable news and social media? Kaitlyn Schiess interviews the authors of “Preaching to a Divided Nation: A Seven-Step Model for Promoting Reconciliation and Unity.” Plus, Levi’s goes AI and Christian is having none of it.
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0:00 - Intro
4:09 - Theme Song
4:30 - Skye tries pickleball
7:17 - Levi’s using AI models
13:23 - Nashville school shooting
19:43 - Avoiding culture war narratives after national tragedies
32:14 - What’s to be learned from tragedies like this
45:51 - Trump’s Indictment
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53:16 - Guest Interview - Matthew Kim and Paul Hoffman
59:19 - Does preaching still have an impact on people?
1:11:10 - How to deal with difficult topics through centered and bounded sets
1:16:22 -How to discern when is the right time to bring up a controversial topic
1:27:49 - End Credits
Links mentioned in news segment:
Levi’s will test AI-generated clothing models to ‘increase diversity’
Why Phil usually waits to comment on national tragedies
Other resources:
Preaching to a Divided Nation: A Seven-Step Model for Promoting Reconciliation and Unity by Matthew Kim and Paul Hoffman
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A while back I was trying to remember the name of an author who was fighting racism but not from an Anti-racist framework. Voila, I found it! here’s a link to a podcast interview! https://theologyintheraw.com/podcast/1009-the-theory-of-racelessness-dr-sheena-mason/
I think she’s a Christian, I don’t know.
I think part of what's difficult about learning to understand and empathize with those who disagree with us--for evangelicals and "exvangelicals" alike--is that growing up evangelical means that you were taught a very binary way of seeing the world. I'm GenX, and there was a lot of fear of postmodernism and "moral relativity" that was instilled in my generation from a young age. So, now that I'm starting to thoughtfully reject some of the worldviews, fears, & perspectives that I grew up with in evangelicalism, it's still hard to wrap my head around what it would look like to empathize with and love individuals even as I deconstruct and reject some of the power structures/worldviews that those individuals subscribe to.…
How come my meme got erased? I thought it was pretty funny and pretty spot on. Was it offensive in some way?
Thank you for this podcast--long time listener, first time commenter! As a mental health clinician, Skye's comments on red flag laws (legislation which I absolutely support) for ANYONE under "psychaitric care" strike me much too broad and would most likely lead to stigma and fewer people seeking needed treatment. Most people under psychiatric care are not a danger to others. Also, I loved Christian's question about what we can learn from the shooter in the Christian community, and I wish she had pushed a bit harder on this. We don't have to publish the manifesto or magnify the ideas to learn about how to help and support those who are hurting, what possible signs were missed if any, and how…
One thing on the Levi's situation. AI as it is today does not actually make up a new person, but composites existing images of humans together to match the query. So not only are they not willing to pay models, they are really using a tool to steal social media owned or copyrighted photos of real people who will never be paid for the use of their images.