Episode 25 - Developing Your Worldview with Bryan Baise
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
Release Date: 02/19/2019
Bonus Episode – Leading Questions – Post Election Breakdown
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis participated in a panel discussion on the podcast to discuss the possible impact of a Biden presidency on the Republican and Democratic parties, the historic nature of Kamala Harris being the first female VP, and the future of American political discourse. This is a rebroadcast of that panel discussion. The panel also includes Leading Questions hosts Calvin, Kent, and Steve and guests Saeed Khan and Jennifer Moore.
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Episode 71 – Exploring Burke with Wes Siler
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
The 18th century British statesman Edmund Burke is often credited as being the father of modern conservatism. His most famous work—Reflections on the Revolution in France—is heralded as the most eloquent counter-revolutionary political text ever written and lays much of the foundation for the conservative mindset of the West. Yet Burke is challenging to read and comprehend. His 18th century prose and deeply complex arguments seem otherworldly in an era of bumper-sticker political slogans and surface-level philosophy. Russell Kirk—perhaps Burke’s greatest...
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Bonus Episode – The 2020 Elections – Now What?
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
Saving Elephants’ own Josh Lewis hosts an election night panel to discuss the incoming results of the race and what it may mean for the future of the country, Republican and Democratic parties, and conservative movement. Meet the panelists: Brooke Medina: Brooke Medina is a homeschool mother of four and the Director of Communications at where she manages Civitas’ outward facing platforms, oversees messaging strategy, and handles all press relationships. The North Carolina based Civitas Instituted is a nonprofit policy organization dedicated to removing barriers to freedom so that...
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Episode 70 – Election Day
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
It’s finally here! It’s Election Day. After what feels like the longest year of our lives, the campaign season is over. While voting and elections are still fresh in our minds, now’s as good a time as any to reflect on the voting process. Yes, you may have already voted, but the act of voting is about so much more than checking a box once every four years. It’s about the life-long process of becoming the sort of people fit to live in a free republic. It’s easy to get tripped up right out of the gate if you’re fuzzy on the purpose for voting in...
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Bonus Episode – The Burkean Conservative with Wes Siler
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
In this bonus episode, Saving Elephants host Josh Lewis is interviewed by Wes Siler, director and founder of . This conversation was originally broadcast on Facebook Live under The Burkean Conservative’s weekly video series . The conversation centers around how Saving Elephants came to be and the ongoing project to reignite conservatism for Millennials in hopes of restoring the Republican party. The Burkean Conservative is a website, social media presence, and series of frequently updated videos focused on educating and expanding the conservative movement on the basis of Edmund...
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Episode 69 – Bob is Back – Quagmire 2020
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
Can we all just admit that 2020 sucks? This year has been a disaster on so many fronts it’s hard to keep track. What feels like a decade’s worth of news stories pass from one week to the next with no end in sight. But just how bad is 2020? Compared to what? How are we doing as a nation, world, or species in the grand scheme of things? Is the future bleak or bright? And how do we maintain perspective so that we can clearly see what needs to change without overlooking genuine progress quietly taking place elsewhere? Long-time guest Bob Burch...
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Episode 68 – Divided We Fall with David French
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
Hardly anyone disagrees Americans are divided, or that our divisions are problematic. But could continual political partisanship and polarization actually fracture the United States into multiple nations? What is the likely outcome or potential risks if we do not find a way to reverse the negative polarization? What are the preconditions for state secessions, and how close are we to meeting those preconditions? Is the United States facing another civil war, acrimonious divorce, or eventual reconciliation? Those are precisely the questions David French sets out to...
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Episode 67 – The Radio Right with Paul Matzko
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
Many Evangelicals and conservatives share an embattlement mindset. Somehow we’re always losing the culture wars despite political gains and cultural acceptance, and even when we’re in the majority politically or enjoy unprecedented influence we can’t shake the feeling that the other shoe is about to drop. No majority, position, or gain is ever secure and we’re just one election away from losing everything. But where does this embattlement mindset come from? Is it simply crackpot paranoia? Is there something embedded in the histories of the Right and...
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Episode 66 – Monetary Mayhem with Joseph Sternberg
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
book released in June was just the latest in a series of books, blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos extoling the virtue of Modern Monetary Theory (or “MMT”). We’re told that governments that have sovereignty over their currency can afford a wide array of social programs from entitlement expansion to generous welfare benefits to the . Leftist are ecstatic that they finally have an answer to the Right’s persistent question “how are you going to pay for all this stuff?” But is MMT sound monetary policy? For that matter, what is monetary policy? What...
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Episode 65 – POTUS Pontifications with Sarah Isgur
Saving Elephants | Millennials defending & expressing conservative values
With everything else going on, it’s easy to forget 2020 is still a presidential election year. To help us navigate the coming election, Josh welcomes Sarah Isgur to talk about national elections, money in politics, how much gender and race is a factor in elections, and how much influence campaigns really have in determining the outcome of an election. Sarah Isgur is a writer and podcast host at where she specializes in legal and political matters. Sarah graduated from Harvard University with a degree in law. She has extensive experience in political campaigns,...
info_outlineHow developed is your worldview? How deep does it go? Have you taken the time to rigorously study and challenge your belief system or have you—like most of us—struggled to find the time as so many other important things in life have kept you busy?
The pathway most of us take as we develop and mature is to adopt the belief system of our upbringing—typically whatever our parents believe. Then, sometime around high school and on into college, in an effort to “find ourselves” we begin to question whether what we’ve always believed is actually so. For some of us that might look like a smooth transition that lands us fairly close to where we started while, for others, we bounce from one “crisis of faith” moment to the next until we end up at a place that’s barely recognizable from where we began.
Either way, the entire process can be draining, time consuming, and fruitless. Understandably, many of us lose interest at some point and happily settle into a worldview cobbled together from our past and present circumstances. But an underdeveloped worldview leaves us susceptible to a host of dangerous ideologies and faiths, not to mention it makes it all the more likely we’d experience another “crisis of faith” sometime down the road when we have even less energy or inclination to navigate it. And far too many have reached the point of not allowing anything they believe to be challenged.
Joining Josh in this episode is Bryan Baise, professor of philosophy and apologetics at Boyce College. Bryan is the program director of philosophy, politics, and economics and the program director of the Christian worldview and apologetics. As will become evident from the conversation—Bryan is someone who took the development of his worldview very seriously and made gargantuan efforts to do so. Bryan walks us through the process of what his own journey looked like and shares the beauty and depth of the conservative worldview he’s developed. He offers encouragement to seek out the things that matter for us all and provides a list of resources to help us get there.