Axis Conversations

→ Help us improve our podcast! Click here to fill out  this three-minute survey. After 20 years in the corporate world (with IBM, Pepsi and Goldman Sachs), Roland spent 11 years as president of the National Fatherhood Initiative before joining Care Net in 2012 as president and CEO. A graduate of Princeton University and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Roland is an...

→ Help us improve our podcast! Click here to fill out  this three-minute survey. Three Big Conversations: Off Campus is already a frontrunner for  teen show of the summer - 10:16 Students are scared to eat in front of their peers - 24:32 What the success of Backrooms says about the state of the movies - 34:20 Slang of the Week - Lida Bida Boda Butt - 2:18 → Mike Novotny's NEW BOOK - Newlywed: A Ch...

→ Help us improve our podcast! Click here to fill out  this three-minute survey. Off Campus is already a frontrunner for  teen show of the summer , students are scared to eat in front of their peers, and what the success of Backrooms says about the state of the movies. Slang of the Week - Lida Bida Boda Butt In Other News: Taylor Swift's new song "I Knew It, I Knew You" comes out today and was ins...

→ Help us improve our podcast! Click here to fill out  this three-minute survey. "How can I instill a good work ethic in my 14 year old son? I have tried to model this for him and we talk about the importance of putting in the work to be good at sports, music, etc. However, he seems to give minimal effort on these pursuits and becomes frustrated and makes excuses when we encourage him to apply him...

→ Help us improve our podcast! Click here to fill out  this three-minute survey. Three Big Conversations: The OKC Thunder have become the  NBA's favorite villain - 10:00 Pope Leo publishes an  AI manifesto - 20:14 The Mandalorian and Grogu had a disappointing first weekend. - 35:50 Song of the Week - "the cure" by Olivia Rodrigo - 3:16 → Click  here to read the lyrics → Click  here to listen to th...

The OKC Thunder have become the NBA's favorite villain , Pope Leo publishes an AI manifesto , and The Mandalorian and Grogu had a disappointing first weekend. → Help us improve our podcast! Click here to fill out  this three-minute survey. Song of the Week - "the cure" by Olivia Rodrigo → Click  here to read the lyrics → Click  here to listen to the song ( language ) In Other News: Small "dot cake...

Ashlee has spent years helping moms navigate the tension between modern motherhood and creativity. She's a writer, editor, and the founder of Coffee + Crumbs , the home of essays that have resonated across the internet, meeting millennial moms where they are. She's also the writer of Create Anyway, a book about nurturing creativity in the margins. The Coffee and Crumbs writers' collective has crea...

→ Help us improve our podcast! Click here to fill out  this three-minute survey. Three Big Conversations: The  Freemasons are recruiting heavily from Gen Z - 10:22 What parents need to know about  how gore travels online - 25:26 A brand called Fear of God sells must-have hoodies  - 39:12 Song of the Week: "Janice ST*U" by Drake - 3:04 → Click here to read the lyrics In Other News: - 51:28 The Mand...

A brand called Fear of God sells must-have hoodies , the Freemasons are recruiting heavily from Gen Z, and what parents need to know about how gore travels online . Song of the Week: "Janice ST*U" by Drake → Click here to read the lyrics → Click here for A Parent's Guide to Loneliness → Help us improve our podcast! Click here to fill out  this three-minute survey. In Other News: The Mandalorian an...

"Would you share ideas and council on navigating the fine line between keeping church attendance and spiritual disciplines as a family pritory (i.e. wanting to establish and model this as a lifelong priority for our kids), and not turning your teen off from Christianity, where your teen runs away from the faith because of you "making them go" to church every Sunday. Drawing from Paul's words, how...

Three Big Conversations: Gen Z  hits the track (and the tracking apps) - 02:42 A new Lord of the Flies adaptation hits home - 17:30 Pop songstresses say they are manifesting their dream lives - 31:04 Resource of the Week: F aith and Life Survey - 01:54 → Click here to watch our video about manifesting. → Click here to watch our video about  Looksmaxxing. → Click here to read the article about thes...

Gen Z hits the track (and the tracking apps), a new Lord of the Flies adaptation hits home , and pop songstresses say they are manifesting their dream lives. Resource of the Week: F aith and Life Survey → Click here to watch our video about manifesting. In Other News: Teen boys and young men are turning to injectable peptide  stacks in order to achieve physical transformations and faster muscle re...

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 C...

Three Big Conversations: The jury is out for The Devil Wears Prada 2 - 06:18 The  Met Gala made people mad for different reasons - 21:00 Moms are ready to organize—so they can boycott school events - 29:06 Slang of the Week: "Chud" - 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,...

The jury is out for The Devil Wears Prada 2 , the Met Gala made people mad for different reasons, and moms are ready to organize—so they can boycott school events. Slang of the Week: "Chud" 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 102,000 fans this past Saturday with a...

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 h...

Three Big Conversations: Tweens are  grabbing an iced latte to get a hit of belonging. - 7:24 Third of Gen Z believe they have "psychic abilities." - 20:10 Nearly half of young adults say they'd  live in the past if they could. - 33:20 Slang of the Week: "You the birthday." - 1:57 → Click here to see the video  high school in the 90's → Click here to listen to our podcast episode Freya India on  H...

Tweens are grabbing an iced latte to get a hit of belonging, a third of Gen Z believe they have "psychic abilities ," and nearly half of young adults say they'd live in the past if they could. Slang of the Week: "You the birthday." →Click here to see the video high school in the 90's →Click here to listen to our podcast episode Freya India on How to Care for Teen Girls in a Digital Age In Other Ne...

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 o...

Three Big Conversations: Teens are  birdwatching - 13:12 Posting on Snapchat - 26:50 Learning to slow down from John Mark Comer - 41:34 Song of the Week: "drop dead" by Olivia Rodrigo - 2:08 → Click here to read the lyrics (language). → Click here to watch The Conversation Starter on Offline Hobbies. In other news: - 58:36 Young people are speedrunning their Bachelor's or Master's degrees, finishi...

Teens are birdwatching , posting on Snapchat , and learning to slow down from John Mark Comer. Song of the Week: "drop dead" by Olivia Rodrigo → Click here to read the lyrics (language). In other news: Young people are speedrunning 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 Li...

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 Po...

People are paying to talk to an AI avatar of Jesus , texts from teens make perfect emo songs , and Justin Bieber reminds everyone of why he became a pop star in the first place. But first:  Resource of the Week - Parent Guide to Gen Alpha Check out our YouTube Episode → What Christians Are Missing About Gen Alpha In Other News: In a strange TikTok trend (as opposed to a normal one), young men are...

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,...

Three Big Conversations: The Night We Met is BookTok's latest darling - 6:30 teenagers are  wearing pimple patches in public - 20:16 Super Mario Galaxy brought tweens to the box office on Easter weekend - 28:16 Slang of the Week - "Clipped" - 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 twe...