Engage: Community and Culture: Recent Episodes
HHBC Student Ministry
Our culture is rapidly changing around us every day. With this change, the Christian community is forced to engage the changing culture in a whole new way. William Loughridge, Maddi Bond, and various guests will look at cultural events such as music, sports, entertainment, and all things current to try to understand how we engage and respond to them as disciples of Christ
Maddi and William discuss Kayne's new album and the responses it has illicit from Christians.
In the final episode of season 3, the team sits down and records Harrison's final episode.
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Sorry for the delay! Kendal, William, and Harrison sit down for Harrison's second-to-last episode with the Oklahoma Secretary of Health and Mental Health (and William's dad) Jerome Loughridge to discuss issues surrounding mental health and how we, as followers of Christ, should respond. Also, Grace Depp, college student and Engage superfan, makes her long-awaited appearance over the airwaves.
William sits down with Avery Vinson for a short debrief and recap of the How To Life Edmond Event. Please pardon the inconsistencies in the sound quality; there were several technical difficulties that William was unable to fix...
This week, Harrison, William, and Kendal sit down to discuss the college admissions scandal that has been splashed across the front pages of the news and how we are to respond to this, not only as students, but as followers of Christ.
Kendall, William, and Harrison sit down (for the first time in a while) to discuss their various Christ-centred escapades that took place over spring break.
We're back! Harrison and William have escaped the clutches of Fine Arts, and the team is now back on the ball. We have some exciting things heading your way soon, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here is a teaser to hold you over until next week...
In the first ever live episode of the Engage Podcast, Jen Sise, Zac Workun, Chris Wehunt, and Noah Frank enter the gauntlet. Who will win?
Kendal and William sit down with special guests Max Sise and Elise McKeithan while at the United Fall Retreat. They talk about the importance of stepping away from our high-paced lives and pressing pause on our work and school, while continuing to grow in Christ.
In this episode, Harrison, Kendal, and William discuss the current political race for governor and how students should respond to such an event. Do politics matter if we aren't old enough to vote? Why should we engage politics?
In this episode, Kendal, William, and Harrison discuss the meaning of escapism and the ways that it manifests itself in our culture. This conversation opens up the discussion of how the Christian Community should respond to modern society finding solace in things such as gaming, school, sports, and music.
In this episode, William and Harrison sit down with Russell Dilks, a senior at Edmond North, and Hayden Holmes, Director of High School Ministries at HHBC to discuss how the christian community should engage a culture of over performance.
In this episode, Kendal and Harrison sit down with Will Gaines to discuss how the Christian Community should engage physical stereotypes in modern culture.
In the premiere episode of Season 3, the team sits down with David Morris for a follow up conversation on the current state of the #MeToo movement.
In the Season 2 finale of Engage: Community and Culture, Harrison sits down with Ben Sylvester and Kendal Conner to discuss recent gun violence across America.
In this episode, Harrison sits down with Hayden and Noah and talks about how male students should engage relationships.
In this episode, Kendal sits down with the HHBC interns to discuss how girl students should engage relationships.
In this episode, Harrison sits down with Matt Robinson, an EMHS math instructor, to talk about the upcoming Oklahoma school walkout and how we should respond to it.
Harrison sits down with Kendal Conner to discuss the book Recapturing The Wonder by Mike Cosper and how we as Christians can engage our state of spiritual disenchantment.
After taking a two and a half month break for the holidays, Engage: Community and Culture has returned for the second half of the second season. In this episode, Harrison sits down with Mekenzie Scholl, an 8th grader at HHBC, Jack Banther, an HHBC sophomore, and Blair Holland, director of middle school ministries at HHBC, to discuss the recent weekend retreat that took place all around the city of Edmond know as Big Weekend. The students discuss favorite moments, key relationships that formed over those three days, and how to love our community as a church.
In the season 2 midseason finale, Russell and Harrison dive into some of the reasons why we might be disinchanted with the Christmas story, how we have gotten there, and how we as a culture can recapture the true wonder of Christmas.
Engage: Community and Culture returns January 24th
Harrison sits down with David Morris to discuss the arising scandals of sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood. How have these allegations been kept in secrecy for so long? What do we do to prevent these types of situations from happening again? How should we as a culture view men that have now been exposed?
In this episode, the guys talk with Chase Coley, a recent high school graduate, about the college life and how to prepare for it.
In this installment of Engage: Community and Culture, that is for some reason on a Saturday instead of a Wednesday, Harrison and Russell talk about the sacred and secular divide and how it influences our culture.
Tedd Tripp, author of "Shepherding A Child's Heart", came to HHBC a few weeks back to host a parenting conference, but before he did that, he stopped by the Engage Podcast to chat with Harrison and Russell about what it means to engage family relationships, eat cheese cakes, and grow mustaches.
After 3 episodes, the long awaited return of Harrison's partner in crime has finally come. In this episode, Harrison and Russell chat with Jon Hazell (state teacher of the year) about how Jon has engaged the younger culture over the time of his years teaching.
After becoming Engage: Community and Culture royalty, Noah Frank (HHBC Student Ministry Worship Leader) is back, becoming the first returning guest! In this episode, Harrison and Noah discuss the new track from Christian rapper Propaganda, titled "I Hate Cats". Noah helps uncover the true meaning of this track, and also how we might engage different cultures or political ideas. The Fighting Irish shall triumph.
After many requests from the HHBC Student Ministry, Harrison has finaly roped the one and only Hayden Holmes into a conversation about how we as students engage our sports teams. Hayden would also love to inform you that Harrison's father, Randall Gantz, was a star pitcher for the UCO Bronchos in his day...where as Harrison can hardly throw a baseball.
In the season finale of Engage: Community and Culture, the not so dynamic duo crack open some Rooster Booster and talk about the new Netflix original series 13 Reasons Why, and how we engage suicide and depression. Russell also advises that you should consult Jackson McCoy on your finances.
The self proclaimed "cool'' Blair Holland takes a seat with Harrison and Russell to talk about his experience so far as the new Director of Middle School Ministry here at HHBC, his favorite movies, music, and sports, and even embarrassing moments of his life. We are very pleased to have Blair on board in our ministry, and we hope you enjoy the episode.
Is this thing on? This episode, Russell, The Durant Wonder Child, and Harrison, The Friendly Giant, have a sit down with the one and only Noah Frank, leader of the HHBC High School Band, and the muscular and strikingly handsome Stephen Powell, the Associate Worship Pastor of HHBC, to discuss two artists who have proclaimed themselves as Christians, but use profane language in their songs. How do we respond as students or parents to this issue?
Harry Bear and Booney sit down with Kendal Connor, the HHBC Student Ministry Girls Associate, to talk about social media.
Harrison and Russell sit down to talk about the Henderson Hills Student Ministry and how it has changed over Harrison's time as a student.