562: Fox Fires Tucker, Toxic Gun Culture, & Rethinking Revivals with Derwin Gray
Release Date: 04/26/2023
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0:00 - Intro
3:25 - Theme Song
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4:55 - Tucker Carlson Fired from Fox News
15:31 - Florida Man Beats Shark with Hammer
19:20 - Google AI becomes a Christian?
24:06 - Recent “Wrong Place, Wrong time” Shootings
36:50 - Feelings and Institutions
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50:16 - Interview Intro
Derwin Gray - https://www.derwinlgray.com/
53:11 - Why the Civil Rights Movement should be considered a revival
1:03:14 - Were the great American revivals of the past actually revivals?
1:11:55 - Problems of seeing faith as only individualistic
1:24:12 - End Credits
Links mentioned in news segment:
Florida man accused of beating a shark with a hammer arrested
Experimental Google AI 'Bard' talks faith in the first person, says 'Christianity gives me hope'
https://www.christianpost.com/news/experimental-google-ai-bard-talks-faith-in-the-first-person.html
Common mistakes, uncommon reactions in 4 separate shootings
https://apnews.com/article/wrong-place-shootings-3c6e5061adb30d889ac3d071893ef129
Other resources:
Why Isn’t the Civil Rights Movement Considered a Revival Movement?
How to Heal Our Racial Divide by Derwin Gray
Missional and Multiethnic: Are You Ready for the Future of the Church?
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