Axis Conversations
Each week on Axis Conversations, we survey cultural trends, host expert interviews, and answer listener questions to help parents and caring adults understand and disciple the next generation
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The Timeless Wisdom of the Rule of Life with Jen Pollock Michel
05/12/2026
The Timeless Wisdom of the Rule of Life with Jen Pollock Michel
Jen Pollock Michel is the award-winning author of six books: A Rule for the Rest of US, Teach Us to Want (Christianity Today's Book of the Year), Keeping Place, Surprised by Paradox (Christianity Today's Book of the Year Award of Merit—Beautiful Orthodoxy), A Habit Called Faith, and In Good Time (Canada's Word Guild Book of the Year Award). Jen is a sought-after contributor to publications like Christianity Today, The Christian Century, The Gospel Coalition, Mockingbird, and The Dispatch, among others. She is also a first-year mentor in Whitworth University's MFA in Creative Writing program, and she travels to speak at churches, conferences, and retreats. Over the past several years, she has been teaching rule-of-life workshops to hundreds of people across various life stages. The mother of five children, she is married to Ryan, and they live in Cincinatti, Ohio. → Click here to preorder , which will be published in September. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Meta Gala, and Mother’s Day
05/08/2026
Roundtable: The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Meta Gala, and Mother’s Day
Three Big Conversations: The jury is out for - 06:18 The made people mad for different reasons - 21:00 Moms are ready to organize—so they can - 29:06 Slang of the Week: - 1:28 In Other News: - 42:58 The Savannah Bananas, an “exhibition baseball” team that includes comedy and choreographed dances in games of what they call Banana Ball, played in front of this past Saturday with a cameo from the Dude Perfect team. Angel Studios’ new adaptation of (paywall) hit theaters this past weekend, uniting George Orwell’s classic critique of totalitarianism with fart jokes and other trappings of modern kids' movies. Scalpers are purchasing the new from Target and selling them for up to eight times their worth (with their original price being $2.89 per box of 12). After Justin Bieber’s performance at Coachella, he became the artist with the on Spotify, with just over 141 million monthly listeners as of this week. While the Taylor Swifts and Harry Styleses of the world may still get away with charging obscene prices for concert tickets, many other artists (like Post Malone and Kid Cudi) are also to increase sale prices—and then often cancelling concerts after low sales. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Meta Gala, and Mother’s Day
05/07/2026
CT: The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Meta Gala, and Mother’s Day
The jury is out for , the made people mad for different reasons, and moms are ready to organize—so they can Slang of the Week: In Other News: The Savannah Bananas, an “exhibition baseball” team that includes comedy and choreographed dances in games of what they call Banana Ball, played in front of this past Saturday with a cameo from the Dude Perfect team. Angel Studios’ new adaptation of (paywall) hit theaters this past weekend, uniting George Orwell’s classic critique of totalitarianism with fart jokes and other trappings of modern kids' movies. Scalpers are purchasing the new from Target and selling them for up to eight times their worth (with their original price being $2.89 per box of 12). After Justin Bieber’s performance at Coachella, he became the artist with the on Spotify, with just over 141 million monthly listeners as of this week. While the Taylor Swifts and Harry Styleses of the world may still get away with charging obscene prices for concert tickets, many other artists (like Post Malone and Kid Cudi) are also to increase sale prices—and then often cancelling concerts after low sales. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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The Big Conversation: Is Motherhood Harder than Ever?
05/05/2026
The Big Conversation: Is Motherhood Harder than Ever?
Parenting right now just feels… different. We’re doing it in the middle of smartphones, social media, and nonstop input. We’re thinking about safety, screen time, mental health, cyberbullying… all of it, all at once aaand probably even before 9am. So this question keeps coming up: is it actually harder to raise kids now, or was it just a different kind of hard back then? Did previous generations have more freedom because they weren’t monitoring devices or even getting pulled into doomscrolling themselves? Or were they carrying a weight we might underestimate? Less support, less language for mental health, less flexibility at work? 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: Starbucks, Intuition, and Being Born in the Wrong Decade
05/01/2026
Roundtable: Starbucks, Intuition, and Being Born in the Wrong Decade
Three Big Conversations: Tweens are to get a hit of belonging. - 7:24 Third of Gen Z believe they have - 20:10 Nearly half of young adults say they’d - 33:20 Slang of the Week: - 1:57 → Click here to see the video → Click here to listen to our podcast episode Freya India on In Other News: - 46:14 The Devil Wears Prada 2, which comes out today, to make $180 million on its opening weekend. The original film is a cult classic with younger viewers, and the trailer for this sequel of getting 181 million views within 24 hours. , a movie about pop star Michael Jackson, set its own record for musical biopics with a $97 million opening last weekend. The film, which stars Jackson’s nephew, has been criticized for sanitizing parts of the origin story of the one-time King of Pop. , an animated spinoff series that continues to explore the world of Eleven and Mike in Hawkins, Indiana, is now streaming on Netflix. The music video for Laufey’s new single “Madwoman” a lineup of Asian American Gen Alpha favorites, including figure skating gold medalist Alysa Liu, The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Lola Tung, and Katseye’s Megan Skiendiel. The discontinued iPod has a nostalgic aesthetic and analog-esque appeal, according to several young people interviewed by the who got the devices second-hand. One summed it up: “I find this modern even though it’s really old.” 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: Starbucks, Intuition, and Being Born in the Wrong Decade
04/30/2026
CT: Starbucks, Intuition, and Being Born in the Wrong Decade
Tweens are to get a hit of belonging, a third of Gen Z believe they have ,” and nearly half of young adults say they’d Slang of the Week: →Click here to see the video →Click here to listen to our podcast episode Freya India on In Other News: The Devil Wears Prada 2, which comes out today, to make $180 million on its opening weekend. The original film is a cult classic with younger viewers, and the trailer for this sequel of getting 181 million views within 24 hours. , a movie about pop star Michael Jackson, set its own record for musical biopics with a $97 million opening last weekend. The film, which stars Jackson’s nephew, has been criticized for sanitizing parts of the origin story of the one-time King of Pop. , an animated spinoff series that continues to explore the world of Eleven and Mike in Hawkins, Indiana, is now streaming on Netflix. The music video for Laufey’s new single “Madwoman” a lineup of Asian American Gen Alpha favorites, including figure skating gold medalist Alysa Liu, The Summer I Turned Pretty’s Lola Tung, and Katseye’s Megan Skiendiel. The discontinued iPod has a nostalgic aesthetic and analog-esque appeal, according to several young people interviewed by the who got the devices second-hand. One summed it up: “I find this modern even though it’s really old.” 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Freya India on How to Care for Teen Girls in a Digital Age
04/28/2026
Freya India on How to Care for Teen Girls in a Digital Age
Freya is the author of the Substack GIRLS, where she writes about the challenges girls and young women face in the modern world. She’s also a staff writer for Jonathan Haidt’s newsletter, After Babel. She has contributed to publications including The New Statesman, The Spectator, and The Free Press. Today, we are going to be discussing her debut book, GIRLS, Generation Z and the commodification of everything, which will be out in the US in May. Her book serves as both an account of her upbringing in the digital age, as well as an inside look for parents and caring adults about what adolescence online is like right now. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: Birdwatching, Snapchat Posting, and Ruthlessly Eliminating Hurry
04/24/2026
Roundtable: Birdwatching, Snapchat Posting, and Ruthlessly Eliminating Hurry
Three Big Conversations: Teens are - 13:12 Posting on - 26:50 from John Mark Comer - 41:34 Song of the Week: - 2:08 → Click to read the lyrics (language). → Click to watch The Conversation Starter on Offline Hobbies. In other news: - 58:36 Young people are their Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees, finishing them in as quickly as three months, as less traditional forms of University attendance become more popular. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is the in Nintendo’s oddest series, which plays as a mix between The Sims and Animal Crossing, and its brand of social engineering makes for a lot of . Coachella continued into its , highlighted by Justin Bieber inviting Billie Eilish on stage, Madonna joining Sabrina Carpenter, and Karol G as the first Latina artist to headline. Some trendspotters are calling rainbow flip-flops the “” as young people continue to reclaim 90s fashion. The meteoric rise of the band Geese has led if there’s some conspiracy behind their popularity. To be fair, social media marketing can sometimes feel more CIA than Don Draper, and streaming numbers are . 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: Birdwatching, Snapchat Posting, and Ruthlessly Eliminating Hurry
04/23/2026
CT: Birdwatching, Snapchat Posting, and Ruthlessly Eliminating Hurry
Teens are , posting on , and from John Mark Comer. Song of the Week: → Click to read the lyrics (language). In other news: Young people are their Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees, finishing them in as quickly as three months, as less traditional forms of University attendance become more popular. Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is the in Nintendo’s oddest series, which plays as a mix between The Sims and Animal Crossing, and its brand of social engineering makes for a lot of . Coachella continued into its , highlighted by Justin Bieber inviting Billie Eilish on stage, Madonna joining Sabrina Carpenter, and Karol G as the first Latina artist to headline. Some trendspotters are calling rainbow flip-flops the “” as young people continue to reclaim 90s fashion. The meteoric rise of the band Geese has led if there’s some conspiracy behind their popularity. To be fair, social media marketing can sometimes feel more CIA than Don Draper, and streaming numbers are . 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: We will be back with you next week!
04/17/2026
Roundtable: We will be back with you next week!
This week, we’re taking a break from the Axis Conversations podcast—including the Roundtable, Ask Axis, and our interview series. We are meeting with members of our Axis community to dream and pray together about this upcoming year and beyond. We appreciate your support, and we’re excited to see you back here next Thursday and Friday, when our regular schedule will resume—including the CT Audio Podcast and the Culture Translator Roundtable! See you then! - The Axis Team 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: Bieber Headlines Coachella, Teen Texts Go Emo, and AI Jesus
04/16/2026
CT: Bieber Headlines Coachella, Teen Texts Go Emo, and AI Jesus
People are paying to talk to an , texts from teens make , and of why he became a pop star in the first place. But first: Resource of the Week - Check out our YouTube Episode → In Other News: In a strange TikTok trend (as opposed to a normal one), young men are seeing how far they can for social media clout as they film themselves dodging security and sprinting deep into the buildings of the secretive pseudoreligion. The Drama, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, is on track to become the fifth A24 title to cross the $100 million mark, according to . Sunrise on the Reaping, the latest Hunger Games movie installment, just dropped its . The film will be released on November 20, 2026. Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord, a new Star Wars animated series on Disney+, appears to be with viewers. The show’s four episodes have already earned a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes—better, even, than the finale of the original trilogy, Return of the Jedi. For several of the Artemis II astronauts, outer space was a . Pilot Victor Glover emphasized how special life on Earth really is in an Easter message sent from the craft, saying, “In all of this emptiness — this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe — you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist (in) together.” 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Dr. Amy Adamczyk on The Scientifically Proven Influence of Parents
04/14/2026
Dr. Amy Adamczyk on The Scientifically Proven Influence of Parents
Amy Amy Adamczykis Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Programs of Doctoral Study in Sociology and Criminal Justice at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Trained as a sociologist of religion, her research focuses on how different contexts (such as nations, counties, friendship groups), and personal religious beliefs shape people’s deviant, moral, and health-related attitudes and behaviors. We’ll be talking today primarily about the findings from her book 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: The Night We Met, Pimple Patches, and Super Mario
04/10/2026
Roundtable: The Night We Met, Pimple Patches, and Super Mario
Three Big Conversations: The is BookTok’s latest darling - 6:30 teenagers are in public - 20:16 brought tweens to the box office on Easter weekend - 28:16 Slang of the Week - - 1:58 In Other News: - 41:34 A squishy stress-relieving toy has taken over the internet, and they are sold out everywhere. It’s safe to say that teens and tweens are . Olivia Rodrigo her first single from the album is called “drop dead” and will be out on April 17. Anticipation is building for I Have Proof, a new horror movie that will be recording on old VHS tapes. purchased 30 tapes from eBay and recorded the movie over people’s old home movies—feel old yet? RAYE’s new album, “THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.” is how faith in God pulled the singer out of darkness. The show might be over, but the movie is still ahead of us. The Summer I Turned Pretty will in Wilmington on April 27. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: The Night We Met, Pimple Patches, and Super Mario
04/09/2026
CT: The Night We Met, Pimple Patches, and Super Mario
The is BookTok’s latest darling, teenagers are in public, and brought tweens to the box office on Easter weekend. Slang of the Week - In Other News: A squishy stress-relieving toy has taken over the internet, and they are sold out everywhere. It’s safe to say that teens and tweens are . Olivia Rodrigo her first single from the album is called “drop dead” and will be out on April 17. Anticipation is building for I Have Proof, a new horror movie that will be recording on old VHS tapes. purchased 30 tapes from eBay and recorded the movie over people’s old home movies—feel old yet? RAYE’s new album, “THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.” is how faith in God pulled the singer out of darkness. The show might be over, but the movie is still ahead of us. The Summer I Turned Pretty will in Wilmington on April 27. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Ask Axis: “How do I help my daughters decide which influences (and influencers) to embrace?”
04/07/2026
Ask Axis: “How do I help my daughters decide which influences (and influencers) to embrace?”
“Thanks for your awesome content. As a father of 3 girls in a hybrid homeschool setting (they are in a classroom two days a week), we are fairly sheltered from outside influences/influencers. I would love practical advice on how and when to guide my girls in developing good judgement and discernment regarding which influences to embrace and which to ignore.” - Matthew 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: 90s Fashion Boom, Meaningmaxxing, and Easter
04/03/2026
Roundtable: 90s Fashion Boom, Meaningmaxxing, and Easter
Three Big Conversations: Teens are inspired by the - 08:22 Everybody, everywhere is - 21:34 The meaning of Easter might feel lost somewhere in the - 37:28 Song of the Week - - 02:50 → Click for the lyrics In Other News: - 54:16 If you thought the popularity of wouldn’t survive into 2026, look no further than your McDonald's, which has Huntr/x and Saja Boys themed meals (and a Derpy the Tiger McFlurry). With the , NASA is sending astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions (over 50 years ago!). The four astronauts won’t land on Luna, just journey around it, but it’s an exciting moment, as the prep, launch, and journey are all and accessible for those curious. An AI on reality shows like Love Island has surged in popularity in the last few weeks, with videos getting tens of millions of views on . Teens are “” as young people are driving an in-person shopping , including, yes, malls. YouTube is rolling out a asking users if what they watched felt like “AI slop.” It could be a way for YouTube to enforce its own , or, as some have hypothesized, it could be a way for Google to train its own AI video models for free. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: 90s Fashion Boom, Meaningmaxxing, and Easter
04/02/2026
CT: 90s Fashion Boom, Meaningmaxxing, and Easter
Teens are inspired by the , everybody, everywhere, is , and the meaning of Easter might feel lost somewhere in the . Song of the Week - → Click for the lyrics In Other News: If you thought the popularity of wouldn’t survive into 2026, look no further than your McDonald's, which has Huntr/x and Saja Boys themed meals (and a Derpy the Tiger McFlurry). With the , NASA is sending astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo missions (over 50 years ago!). The four astronauts won’t land on Luna, just journey around it, but it’s an exciting moment, as the prep, launch, and journey are all and accessible for those curious. An AI on reality shows like Love Island has surged in popularity in the last few weeks, with videos getting tens of millions of views on . Teens are “” as young people are driving an in-person shopping , including, yes, malls. YouTube is rolling out a asking users if what they watched felt like “AI slop.” It could be a way for YouTube to enforce its own , or, as some have hypothesized, it could be a way for Google to train its own AI video models for free. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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"How to Talk to Your Teen About Video Games” with CJ Fant
03/31/2026
"How to Talk to Your Teen About Video Games” with CJ Fant
CJ Fant is one of our own team members at Axis. As basically our resident gaming aficionado, I wanted to bring CJ on to talk about how parents can understand this medium a little better and enter into some intentional conversation around video games with the next generation. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: Epic Layoffs, the Gen Z Pout, and BTS Returns
03/27/2026
Roundtable: Epic Layoffs, the Gen Z Pout, and BTS Returns
Three Big Conversations: Epic Games lays off - 04:31 Gen Z is posing like a - 15:61 BTS releases their since 2020 - 43:24 Resource of the Week - - 02:21 In Other News: - 55:50 It’s sequel season for Kirsten Dunst. The actress just signed on for the untitled sequel and alongside Sydney Sweeney. The actress said in an interview with that she just wants to make a “pile of cash.” A new Chappell Roan is trending after a claim that her security guard yelled at Jude Law’s 11-year-old daughter at a hotel in Brazil. Roan says the guard wasn’t with her team and that she never even saw what happened, but the internet has already turned it into a round of . Sora, OpenAI’s video app, is on the chopping block. The company is , and Disney has walked away from its billion-dollar plan to put its characters in Sora clips after months of pushback over deepfakes, consent, and AI slop in entertainment. Chuck Norris, the martial arts star behind Walker, Texas Ranger, has died at 86. His family says he passed away on March 19 in Hawaii after a medical emergency. People are saying goodbye by bringing the classic “” jokes as a way to honor the icon who inspired them. ABC has Taylor Frankie Paul’s upcoming season of The Bachelorette,, and Hulu has on the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, after a domestic violence video involving Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, resurfaced. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: Epic Layoffs, the Gen Z Pout, and BTS Returns
03/26/2026
CT: Epic Layoffs, the Gen Z Pout, and BTS Returns
Epic Games lays off , Gen Z is posing like a , and BTS releases their since 2020. Resource of the Week - In Other News: It’s sequel season for Kirsten Dunst. The actress just signed on for the untitled sequel and alongside Sydney Sweeney. The actress said in an interview with that she just wants to make a “pile of cash.” A new Chappell Roan is trending after a claim that her security guard yelled at Jude Law’s 11-year-old daughter at a hotel in Brazil. Roan says the guard wasn’t with her team and that she never even saw what happened, but the internet has already turned it into a round of . Sora, OpenAI’s video app, is on the chopping block. The company is , and Disney has walked away from its billion-dollar plan to put its characters in Sora clips after months of pushback over deepfakes, consent, and AI slop in entertainment. Chuck Norris, the martial arts star behind Walker, Texas Ranger, has died at 86. His family says he passed away on March 19 in Hawaii after a medical emergency. People are saying goodbye by bringing the classic “” jokes as a way to honor the icon who inspired them. ABC has Taylor Frankie Paul’s upcoming season of The Bachelorette,, and Hulu has on the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, after a domestic violence video involving Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, resurfaced. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Ask Axis (ft. Dr. Kara Powell): “How do I help my teen make their faith their own?”
03/24/2026
Ask Axis (ft. Dr. Kara Powell): “How do I help my teen make their faith their own?”
"My kids go to church because that is what we do as a family. They know God is good and Jesus is the Messiah because of what they have been taught and how my husband and I center our lives on Jesus. But how can I encourage them to seek a personal relationship with the Lord that isn’t built on what they’ve done all their lives and been told? To instead, build it out of an independent, self-driven desire to know the God of all creation? How can I help them from deconstructing their faith in the future when they are out on their own and encounter questions set out to attack their belief?" - Tana Kara is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute, the founder of the TENx10 Collaboration, and the Chief of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. Her team has been doing some groundbreaking research on who Gen Alpha is and how faith formation looks different for this new rising generation. → Listen to Kara's → Check out Fuller's 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: Project Hail Mary, Grace Through Tragedy, and AI Impersonating
03/20/2026
Roundtable: Project Hail Mary, Grace Through Tragedy, and AI Impersonating
Three Big Conversations: The latest TikTok trend involves sounding like a brainless sycophant to - 07:16 in Georgia - 20:18 packs art, science, and Ryan Gosling into a family-friendly movie - 34:28 Song of the Week - - 01:58 → Click to read the lyrics → Click for reviews of Project Hail Mary In Other News: - 44:30 The Oscars happened. Ryan Coogler was Black screenwriter to win Best Original Screenplay. Plus, for the seventh time in the history of the award show, there was . is a new website where users can role-play as AI, with users playing the human or AI role. People are posting of the humorous human responses and bonding over their shared dislike for AI slop. It’s time to make your , because is here! The annual college basketball tournaments will be dominating TV screens until the national championship game in early April. NVIDIA a new feature that uses AI to make games look “better.” Backlash ensued, with some users a “slop” AI filter for games.“” a documentary following the singer-songwriter’s mental health journey on tour, will be out in April. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: Project Hail Mary, Grace Through Tragedy, and AI Impersonating
03/19/2026
CT: Project Hail Mary, Grace Through Tragedy, and AI Impersonating
The latest TikTok trend involves sounding like a brainless sycophant to , a in Georgia, and packs art, science, and Ryan Gosling into a family-friendly movie. Song of the Week - → Click to read the lyrics → Click for reviews of Project Hail Mary In Other News: The Oscars happened. Ryan Coogler was Black screenwriter to win Best Original Screenplay. Plus, for the seventh time in the history of the award show, there was . is a new website where users can role-play as AI, with users playing the human or AI role. People are posting of the humorous human responses and bonding over their shared dislike for AI slop. It’s time to make your , because is here! The annual college basketball tournaments will be dominating TV screens until the national championship game in early April. NVIDIA a new feature that uses AI to make games look “better.” Backlash ensued, with some users a “slop” AI filter for games.“” a documentary following the singer-songwriter’s mental health journey on tour, will be out in April. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to → For more Axis resources, go to
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Dr. Kara Powell on How Gen Alpha Does Faith Differently
03/17/2026
Dr. Kara Powell on How Gen Alpha Does Faith Differently
Dr. Kara Powell is the Executive Director of the Fuller Youth Institute, the founder of the TENx10 Collaboration, and the Chief of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. We’ll be talking today about some of the Fuller Youth Institute’s new research on Gen Alpha—including how exactly they’re different from previous generations of teens (including Gen Z), and what faith formation looks like for the world’s youngest generation. → Check out Fuller's 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: Timothée Chalamet Hates Opera, Harry Styles’ New Album, and Donna Kelce’s Remodel
03/13/2026
Roundtable: Timothée Chalamet Hates Opera, Harry Styles’ New Album, and Donna Kelce’s Remodel
Three Big Conversations: Timothée Chalamet - 06:46 Harry Styles’ new album - 19:00 Donna Kelce’s home renovation becomes the - 30:26 Slang of the Week: “Big Chungus Life” - 01:34 In Other News: - 45:45 Miami Heat player Bam Adebayo in a game this week, passing Kobe Bryant’s 81 points for the second-most points in a single game in NBA history. (Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game from 1962 still stands as the #1 record.) According to the Wall Street Journal (paywall), Gen Z is driving a resurgence in , with many malls redesigning public spaces to be more “photogenic” and social-media friendly, as well as popular online stores like Edikted opening brick-and-mortar locations. For some middle schoolers, the word “” is now funny, thanks to a clip from Disney+’s show Just Beyond going viral, alongside absurd TikTok edits like . The controversial AI-generated “actress” Tilly Norwood was featured in a new music video, in which she was verses like “AI’s not the enemy, it’s the key.” According to an article from (paywall), Gen Z is becoming more skeptical of TikTok, with 53 percent saying TikTok feels more commercial than it did a year ago, and 72 percent agreeing that content now feels more staged and performative. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: Timothée Chalamet Hates Opera, Harry Styles’ New Album, and Donna Kelce’s Remodel
03/12/2026
CT: Timothée Chalamet Hates Opera, Harry Styles’ New Album, and Donna Kelce’s Remodel
Timothée Chalamet , Harry Styles’ new album debuts to , and Donna Kelce’s home renovation becomes the . Slang of the Week: “Big Chungus Life” In Other News: Miami Heat player Bam Adebayo in a game this week, passing Kobe Bryant’s 81 points for the second-most points in a single game in NBA history. (Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game from 1962 still stands as the #1 record.) According to the Wall Street Journal (paywall), Gen Z is driving a resurgence in , with many malls redesigning public spaces to be more “photogenic” and social-media friendly, as well as popular online stores like Edikted opening brick-and-mortar locations. For some middle schoolers, the word “” is now funny, thanks to a clip from Disney+’s show Just Beyond going viral, alongside absurd TikTok edits like . The controversial AI-generated “actress” Tilly Norwood was featured in a new music video, in which she was verses like “AI’s not the enemy, it’s the key.” According to an article from (paywall), Gen Z is becoming more skeptical of TikTok, with 53 percent saying TikTok feels more commercial than it did a year ago, and 72 percent agreeing that content now feels more staged and performative. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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The Big Conversation: Doubt, Discipleship, and Following Jesus in the Internet Age
03/10/2026
The Big Conversation: Doubt, Discipleship, and Following Jesus in the Internet Age
“How do we talk to a skeptical generation about discipleship, and the reality of the spiritual world?” This month, we’re spotlighting the work of discipleship that parents, youth pastors, and other adults do in the lives of the next generation. We’ve got an upcoming podcast conversation with Dr. Kara Powell about faith formation in Gen Alpha, a new episode of our YouTube show about how Gen Alpha processes life and faith, and another on the philosophical and theological question of why does God allow pain and suffering; we’re promoting a new video Conversation Kit on the topic of miracles and what God’s involvement in the world looks like today. Resources → 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Roundtable: The Jim Carrey Clone Conspiracy, Resident Evil, and Alysa Liu
03/06/2026
Roundtable: The Jim Carrey Clone Conspiracy, Resident Evil, and Alysa Liu
Three Big Conversations: Jim Carrey reacts to being - 12:30 What parents should know about the new - 26:42 Why people are still talking about - 45:48 Slang of the Week: Moving in silence - 01:14 In Other News: - 1:02:00 Early reviews for the new game have been enthusiastic, with critics comparing it to a blend of Minecraft creative mode and Animal Crossing’s relaxed village life. The game focuses more on building and exploration than traditional Pokémon battles. Apple is stepping into the market with the new $599 MacBook Neo. The price places it much closer to the Chromebooks and Windows laptops that many schools recommend for students. Rumors that Zendaya and Tom Holland started after Zendaya’s stylist casually told reporters the wedding had “already happened.” The couple hasn’t confirmed anything, but fans online are already in full detective mode. About 40% of Gen Z and millennials say spiritual advice from AI can be just as trustworthy as advice from a pastor, according to a by Barna and tech platform Gloo. Many young adults say they already use AI tools for prayer, Bible study, and spiritual questions. Energy drinks were once marketed almost entirely to young men, with branding tied to extreme sports and masculinity. Now companies are launching and fruitier flavors aimed at women, including cotton candy, which is delicious at a carnival and deeply questionable as a beverage. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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CT: The Jim Carrey Clone Conspiracy, Resident Evil, and Alysa Liu
03/05/2026
CT: The Jim Carrey Clone Conspiracy, Resident Evil, and Alysa Liu
Jim Carrey reacts to being called a clone, what parents should know about the new Resident Evil video game, and why people are still talking about Alysa Liu’s Olympic performance. Slang of the Week: Moving in silence In Other News: Early reviews for the new game have been enthusiastic, with critics comparing it to a blend of Minecraft creative mode and Animal Crossing’s relaxed village life. The game focuses more on building and exploration than traditional Pokémon battles. Apple is stepping into the market with the new $599 MacBook Neo. The price places it much closer to the Chromebooks and Windows laptops that many schools recommend for students. Rumors that Zendaya and Tom Holland started after Zendaya’s stylist casually told reporters the wedding had “already happened.” The couple hasn’t confirmed anything, but fans online are already in full detective mode. About 40% of Gen Z and millennials say spiritual advice from AI can be just as trustworthy as advice from a pastor, according to a by Barna and tech platform Gloo. Many young adults say they already use AI tools for prayer, Bible study, and spiritual questions. Energy drinks were once marketed almost entirely to young men, with branding tied to extreme sports and masculinity. Now companies are launching and fruitier flavors aimed at women, including cotton candy, which is delicious at a carnival and deeply questionable as a beverage. 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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Ask Axis: “How do I create a home environment where my son feels safe to admit mistakes?”
03/03/2026
Ask Axis: “How do I create a home environment where my son feels safe to admit mistakes?”
"I have a newly 8 year old male. Honesty has been a major struggle in our home because he hides the truth in order to avoid punishment. I feel that I have created an environment at home that doesn't feel safe enough to express mistakes. How should dad and I proceed to raise 2 sons that have the fruit of The Spirit?" - Marie → Read about the → Click here for the Barna research for 🎧 Listen / Follow / Connect → Become a monthly donor today, join → Check out the podcast now on our → Get your question on Ask Axis! Send in your questions to . → For more Axis resources, go to .
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