Beneath the Headlines

There are few Christians more thoughtful and well-versed on our technological present and the coming future than Andy Crouch. He was generous enough to sit down with Mike and share what he sees out there today and where we're headed into the future. Andy Crouch is the partner for theology and culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem awakening redemptive imagination. His writings explore faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. ...

The world is growing stranger each day. Many things are unstable and up for grabs. One is the role of the United States should take in the future world order. Dr. John Owen has been studying and writing about America's place in the world for over two decades. He is currently serving as a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, and a Senior Fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. John–who earned his PhD at H...

For the past 75 years, our culture has been more united by what we oppose than by what we believe. We don't know what we're for, but we know we're against the Nazis. This "anti-Hitler ethos" has served as society's shared moral compass, but Dr. Alec Ryrie argues this foundation is now eroding in concerning ways. In this episode, Dr. Ryrie, a professor of history of Christianity at Durham University and author of widely acclaimed books including Protestants and Unbelievers, presents a provocat...

Mike sits down with Jason Woodruff—founder and editor-in-chief of The Pour Over—for a conversation about news, anxiety, and why everyone's relationship with information is probably broken. Full transparency: Jason is Mike's son. Mike invested in The Pour Over. They've got dirt on each other. And they almost co-wrote a book before realizing that wouldn't work. So... make of that what you will. So despite the conflicts of interest, we hope you'll enjoy hearing how Jason built a news company wit...

In 2003, Jonathan Rauch—a man who describes himself as an "unrepentantly atheistic Jewish homosexual"—argued that religion's decline in the U.S. was "nothing less than a major civilizational achievement." Today, he thinks that article was the "dumbest thing I have ever written." Rauch, still unabashedly atheist, Jewish, and homosexual, believes Christianity is a "load-bearing wall" for American democracy. His book Cross Purposes urges the Church to follow Jesus's teachings so that socie...