Enculture: Recent Episodes
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Failure to use the preferred pronouns requested may be considered gender-based harassment. What is a cruciform response?
Describing the "3rd leg" of cruciform: what does it look like to respond to our own children and battle the sexual alchemists who would sacrifice their soul?
Is dysphoria a sin? Where is the good news? How can we navigate the epidemic outbreak? These questions and more in Episode 4 of Cruciform Identity.
Idolatry isn't just for pagans, and identity isn't just a discussion for those who desire to transition. Where does our identity come from? Why is it such an issue of distress?
When we take a particular issue, like transgenderism for example, we cannot effectively address it when we are not coming from the cross. The Christian church has failed society for years and to turn it around we must address the beam in our own eye.
The first of a new series investigating identity issues and what it means to live cruciform.
Cruciform thought centers around a new Epistemology, a new way of thinking, in issues such as abortion.
In this episode, Tom explores the arguments in favour of churches resisting government prohibitions on gathered worship, and teases further out the importance of desire in our response.
Nobody debates the mask mandates without feeling the heat this discussion generates. When masks are so simple, cheap, and well-known why does the argument have at least as much intensity as the vaccine debate? Is there something deeper going on? Tom tries to dig a little deeper, and encourages us to itch beneath our masks.