Episode 179 | Cultural Counterfeits - Fellowship Denver Church

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Episode 179 | Cultural Counterfeits

Season 4, Episode 4

September 25, 2024 • Autumn Gardner, Hunter Beaumont, Jen Oshman

Jen Oshman joins Hunter and Autumn on the podcast today to discuss her book Cultural Counterfeits: Confronting 5 Empty Promises of Our Age and How We Were Made for So Much More. In today’s culture, women and girls are influenced by idols that promise purpose and meaning for their lives―outward beauty and ability, sex, abortion, and gender fluidity. Within the church, women may elevate good things like marriage and motherhood to the status of idolatry. Ultimately, these idols are hollow and leave women feeling unsettled, but where should they turn instead?

In Cultural Counterfeits, Jen encourages women to reject these idols' empty, destructive promises and embrace real hope and peace in Jesus, calling them to recognize their unshakable and eternal identities in him.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Cultural Counterfeits: Confronting 5 Empty Promises of Our Age and How We Were Made for So Much More by Jen Oshman

It’s Good to be a Girl by Jen and Zoe Oshman

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

Virgil Wander by Leif Enger

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks

The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark

Dominion by Tom Holland

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry

Episode 187 | VFL Culture: What Does the Election Reveal About U.S. Culture?

November 20, 2024 • Autumn Gardner, Hunter Beaumont

In the wake of the recent election, journalists, sociologists, political party leaders, and all of us are looking at the voting data, examining what ballot initiatives passed and where, and asking, “What does this data tell us about the people and culture in our country?” Autumn and Hunter discuss four themes that emerged from the election trends. 1) Legacy Media vs. Alternative Media 2) The Broad “Trump Voting Coalition” 3) The Abortion Issue, and 4) The Return to Political Norms. Resources mentioned in this episode: https://www.ft.com/content/392e1e79-a8c1-4473-ab51-3267c415b078 https://www.thefp.com/p/no-the-problem-isnt-the-voters by Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman https://mereorthodoxy.com/the-doug-electionwww.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/upshot/trump-election-victory.html by Jake Meador https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/upshot/trump-election-victory.html by Nate Cohn http://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/abortion-ballot-measures.html by Kate Zernike https://www.npr.org/2024/11/05/g-s1-32760/colorado-abortion-vote-results by Bente Birkeland https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/elections/trump-america-red-shift-victory.html Vote by Zach Levitt, Keith Collins, Robert Gebeloff, Malika Khurana, Marco Hernandez https://musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/contextualizing-the-2024-election by Musa al-Gharbi

Episode 186 | VFL Reads: We Need Good Protestant Ethicists

November 13, 2024 • Autumn Gardner, Hunter Beaumont

Resources mentioned in this episode: https://www.amazon.com/walking-through-infertility-theological-struggling/dp/1433559315 by Matthew Arbo https://www.amazon.com/resurrection-moral-order-outline-evangelical/dp/0802806929/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2wgmww6hwwtp9&dib=eyj2ijoimsj9.14z7tssuhro7pwkkhfydkmx3vafhjuxrypgnxbcjacubossx3ptyuclz96bczejsdczmnspei1i52nttxbwar-5aciszq5mhuqyepbts6t-niasu6iadpd6oz6dkwhcjouakv4gubcxokyk3oncbka.m9vmhvo1wx4gvtpaz4d-wfs_rznz0moqzkmorvvxg6y&dib_tag=se&keywords=resurrection+and+moral+order&qid=1730398726&sprefix=resurrection+and+moral+o%2caps%2c130&sr=8-1 by Oliver O’Donovan