In this episode we review the devastating impacts of the U.S. demographic “cliff” and the parallel decline of the Church. We also dive into ACNA membership statistics which could spell a troubling future for the denomination. Finally, we discuss what it will take from everyday Christians to begin reversing decades of institutional decline.

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00:00 – Introduction

03:33 – The U.S. demographic cliff

22:13 – The decline of the Western Church

28:58 – Concerning trends within the ACNA

45:58 – Global religious landscape & growth of Islam

59:13 – How to rebuild the Church

01:10:08 – Conclusion

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• Islam was the world’s fastest-growing religion from 2010 to 2020 (Conrad Hackett) | Pew Research Center
• ACNA FIGURES REVEAL DISTURBING TREND (David Virtue) | Virtue Online
• ‘You can’t create 18-year-olds’: What can colleges do amid demographic upheaval? (Ben Unglesbee) | Higher Ed Dive

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In this episode we consider proper and improper uses of AI, the near occasion for sin, the idol of transhumanism, and principles for engagement with new technologies.

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00:00 – Introduction

06:21 – Considerations for Ministry

09:47 – Day-to-day use of AI

16:27 – How we relate to AI

24:47 – Worshipping dumb idols

29:17 – Principles for using AI

33:44 – “The Cambrian Implosion” / The retreat of nature

39:37 – “Making the Best of Dystopia” / Transhumanism

49:21 – Greater capabilities, greater risks

54:59 – Spiritual guardrails of daily prayer

01:03:21 – Conclusion

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• Making the Best of Dystopia by C. R. Wiley | Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity
• The Cambrian Implosion - First Things

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In this episode, we discuss the relationship between free will and predestination, and explore how these concepts are understood in Anglicanism in light of the 39 Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer.

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00:00 – Introduction

01:35 – Man’s fall in the garden

05:57 – Deprived, not depraved

09:30 – O Happy Fault!

12:40 – Modern Protestant and Evangelical views of free will

17:30 – Sacraments, grace, love, and free will

20:50 – Anglican tension between Reformed and Catholic

25:31 – Were the 39 Articles of Religion Calvinistic?

29:30 – The concept of mystery

31:15 – The 39 Articles, the Book of Common Prayer, and Anglican history

36:15 – Article XVII, on Predestination and Election

39:29 – The role of the 39 Articles in American Anglicanism

44:29 – Reconciling predestination and evangelism

50:47 – The two creation narratives in Genesis

54:20 – Why Anglicanism is irenic

55:53 – “Apostolic Succession” vs. “Historic Episcopate”

01:03:05 – First conclusion

01:06:47 – The collapse of the Episcopal Church

01:08:33 – Final conclusion

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