The Gospel Coalition published an article last week that brought together every divergent faction of the church to say, “Ick!” While many are discussing the troubling content of the article on social media, the Holy Post crew examines what is says about the troubling state of evangelical publishing. Then, new data finds liberal teens are struggling with depression at higher rates on average than conservative teens. What’s the explanation? And Phil talks to professor Christopher Watkin about his book, “Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture.” Is critical theory really as evil as some culture warriors say it is? Watkin offers a more thoughtful and Christian perspective on how to critique society. Plus, Japan discovers 7,000 new islands.
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29:23 - Teen mental health and politics
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Interview with Christopher Watkin
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53:13 - Social contract
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1:01:32 - Biblical Critical Theory
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1:04:28 - Defining critical theory
1:10:50 - Augustine
1:16:29 - Analyzing culture through the bible
1:21:50 - Eternal destiny and culture
1:24:28 - Diagonalizing
1:35:31 - End Credits
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Japan just found 7,000 islands it didn’t know it had - https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/asia/japan-islands-double-report-intl-hnk/index.html
Please understand that I was the first one who was upset by the bad article - https://mpierce.substack.com/p/please-understand-that-i-was-the
Esau McCaulley tweet link - https://twitter.com/esaumccaulley/status/1631380537892806669
Why are young liberals so depressed? - https://www.slowboring.com/p/why-are-young-liberals-so-depressed?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Oh so many comments I wanted to add to this conversation!
To begin with, re: Butler's article removed from the Gospel Coalition and Skye's comment that publishers should do their job. I mentioned this to you before but still think HP might have an interesting conversation with APU prof, Jennifer Buck (a white women), who's recent book on "trap feminist theology" was quickly taken down from sale by the publisher when a couple of social media platform personalities went viral by attacking her for writing-on-black-while-white. Was that a case of the publisher not doing their job? I certainly think that is at least partially so . . . for starters, having a black women on the cover was probably no…
Dear friends, your conversation about "The Article" was disappointing. Skye's conclusion that the fault of the publisher was that they didn't prevent the author from experiencing a backlash was off base. How could they have foreseen a backlash when they themselves support this line of thinking? The real fault of the publisher was that no one saw a problem with the views he was expressing. Christian was right when she said NO woman would be alright with the parallels he was drawing, and I concur. Unfortunately, she was shut down when she mentioned this. I will leave you with a quote from an article written about this:
"Was the problem really that they didn't have proper review process? Or was…
I found it strange that you guys did not talk about what the Haidt article suggested was the cause of higher rates of depression among liberal girls!! If you are discussing an article and you are asking yourselves the same question the article is and the article offers an explanation, why not talk about it? In any case, the article basically says that one possible explanation for the higher rates of depression among female liberals is that liberals tend to think of themselves as victims
https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-girls
Regarding the difference in depression rates I noticed that a couple of potential contributing factors weren‘t mentioned, namely race and socioeconomic status. I’d speculate that more youths living in poverty would tend to report higher levels of depression and have a more liberal worldview based on their own need. Similarly, undocumented youth might report greater levels of depression and a more liberal worldview.
The actual study gives several valid and plausible explanations for the difference in depression rates between conservative and progressive adolescents. And also, it's interesting to me that rather than just asking adolescents what the causes of their depression is, a bunch of adults are standing outside speculating. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560321000438