In this in-between series, we want to ask some hard-hitting questions about Christian identity. What is a person's identity? Why are identities so contested? Why is it that my own identity so often seems so hard to find?

In this first episode, we set the stage by exploring the story of how we got here. Modern Identity didn't simply fall in our laps. Instead, a number of key thinkers, figures such as Rene Descarte, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud all had a part to play in the challenge of naming your identity today. We'll explore how these thinkers crafted the central markers of what it means to be human in 21st-century Western society, and why ultimately, the identities that these thinkers offer will fail us. Yet this is just the beginning of a road back to your true identity, back to your heart, a road that will eventually introduce us to our guide back to ourselves in St. Augustine.

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