The Culture Translator

Welcome to The Culture Translator. This week Star Wars: Outlaws makes its debut, Rings of Power returns for season two, and grandparents are the unsung heroes of the legacy of faith.

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Today we’re reposting an interview with Nancy Pearcey. Professor Pearcey is the author of The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, as well as Love Thy Body, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, Finding Truth, and Total Truth. She is a professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. She has been quoted in The New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual." We’ll be talking primarily about her new book, The Toxic War on Ma...

In the Culture Translator Roundtable, we dive deeper into the context and nuance around the critical conversations and topics written about in the Culture Translator Newsletter.

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Slang of the Week: 1:50

1. Dauber's Delight: 6:02

2. Parental Advisory: 19:45

3. Sweet n' Spicy: 36:09

Welcome to The Culture Translator. This week Gen Z takes to the bingo hall, parents in 2024 feel like they can’t win, and Sabrina Carpenter’s new album is more salty than sweet.

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Today we are posting an interview with Sam Jolman. Sam is a trauma therapist with over twenty years of experience specializing in men’s issues and sexual trauma recovery. Being a therapist has given him a front-row seat to hear hundreds of men and women share their stories. His writing flows out of this unique opportunity to help people know and heal their stories, and find greater sexual wholeness and aliveness. He received his master’s in counseling from Reformed Theological Seminary and was further trained in Narrative Focused Trauma Care through the Allender Center at The Seattle School of T...

In the Culture Translator Roundtable, we dive deeper into the context and nuance around the critical conversations and topics written about in the Culture Translator Newsletter.

For more written, audio, and video resources, go to axis.org

Song of the Week: 1:05

1. "Very Mindful, Very Demure": 8:02

2. The Sounds of Summer: 18:05

3. ChatGP-Cheat: 38:11

Welcome to The Culture Translator. This week "being demure" is the new "being brat," "MILLION DOLLAR BABY" was the top TikTok sound of the summer, and the way students are using ChatGPT might surprise (and concern) caring adults. 

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Today we are posting an interview with Dr. Carl Trueman. Dr. Trueman is a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. He’s also a contributing editor at First Things, an esteemed church historian, and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Trueman has authored or edited more than a dozen books; we’ll be talking today primarily about the ideas from his books The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self and Strange New World, which explore the cultural shifts that paved the way for that idea that someone could be “a man trappe...

In the Culture Translator Roundtable we dive deeper into the context and nuance around the critical conversations and topics written about in the Culture Translator Newsletter.

For more written, audio, and video resources, go to axis.org

Song of the Week: 0:31

1. It Ends With Bucks: 15:01

2. Hauls of Learning: 32:23

3. Tough Topics: 45:31

Welcome to the Culture Translator. This week It Ends With Us finds box office success and behind the scenes drama, “back to school” season is in full swing, and parents worry most about their teens’ mental health and their plans for the future.

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