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What’s New? Nothing (Except This!)

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So it’s 2023. What’s new? Nothing, really. Well, except one thing. What is it? What’s actually, really, truly new?

Find out in this mindbogglingly exiting, fast-paced Season 5 opener of the Your Sunday Drive podcast.

Topics covered include: McCarthy and the same-old political divisions; how Jesus offers a third way vis-a-vis divisions; how to not let the culture wars steal our joy (a la Trevin Wax) because we’re “citizens of Heaven and fight Mordor with the joy of the Shire in our hearts” (a la Tolkien – happy bday, professor!); btw that’s at least two French phrases used so far in this description (oui oui!); rewatching Mad Men and the providential, still-small-voice moment involving “The Door” where you can discover the actually, really, truly new thing (spoiler, it involves the gospel and Jesus and all that, as per usual w this podcast 🙂 ); the new Avatar and how some movies really change things; probably other topics come up in there as well, but who’s to say really? listen and find out I guess.

Come along for Your Sunday Drive – quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.

Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive

A New Civil War? Squid Game

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The country has never seemed more divided. New data suggests that many Americans think it’s “time to split the country.” Are we in for a new Civil War?

In this new episode of the Your Sunday Drive podcast, we use an article by David French, a quote from Andrew Yang, the recent controversy surrounding Facebook, the current congressional fight over Biden’s infrastructure bill and the debt ceiling, and other angles to take a look at this topic. What underlies such division? How is media and social media involved? Would there even be something ultimately “wrong” with an actual split in the country? Most vitally, how should individual Christians and the church navigate the opportunity of our polarized times?

In our second segment, we shift focus to the uber popular Netflix show Squid Game, relating it to another current cultural obsession, the Gabby Petito case. Why are people fascinated by “true crime” stories and violent media such as Squid Game? What are the dangers and what elements of the redemptive can we discover in this human impulse?

Come along for Your Sunday Drive – quick conversation about current events, politics, pop culture and more, from the perspective of a couple of guys trying to follow Jesus.

Hosts: Matt Hill and Nate Polzin. Presented by the Church in Drive of Saginaw, MI, as often as possible. Please visit churchindrive.com and facebook.com/thechurchindrive