Kingdom Culture Conversations

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The 2025/2026 school year was a year of administrative transition for Northwest Christian School with assistant superintendent Samantha Maszton winning the day in a dual role as secondary principal, overseeing middle and high school as the school eased through several transitions.  All t...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today: Harvard biologist Ernst Mayr said the quiet part out loud. In 1999, Mayr gave a lecture titled "Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought" and in this lecture he indicated what had only been suspected previously:  that Darwinists believe that there is no corner of creati...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! On the surface, David Weiss appears to be the quintessential, and stereotypical, New Yorker with a special emphasis on his hilarity and sense of humor.  In point of fact, Weiss started his career as a stand-up comic in NYC whose act revolved around making fun of conspiracy theorist and f...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today, Robby Lashua and Geoff Brown step right into the do-do. Christianity isn't meant to be a list of "don't do's" as so many in the world, and perhaps the church, perceive it.  Rather, Christianity defines its followers as individuals who are aware of the the...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today: Dinosaurs on Noah's Ark?  Dinosaur tracks and human artifacts within the same fossil layers?  Fresh biological material within excavated dinosaur bones?  We have found water-soluble dinosaur DNA that has survived? You better buckle up.  Today's Kingdom Culture Conversati...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Although thoroughly secular in nature , the National Center for Science Education benignly labels it as the "Creation/Evolution Continuum" .  Running from the extreme of Flat Earth creationism on the Biblical side to the extreme of atheistic evolution on the secular side, it is...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today: There is no such thing as "settled science".  By its very definition, science cannot "prove" anything.  While it can "disprove" and show something to be false, the impetus of scientific methodology is to continue to accumulate observations and then cl...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today: Arizona's Grand Canyon is considered the "Eighth Wonder of the World".  Epic is scale, it is difficult for most to imagine what momentous force produced this colossal, natural beauty. "Most" does not include Biblical creationist Russ Miller. Miller describ...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today: As we press forward within "Consider the Cost" with author Russ Miller, he drops a bombshell:  "We have reached a point within the contemporary church wherein we will hardly allow iron to sharpen iron." When asked where the chief opposition to the notion of a y...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today: "Can we draw a distinction between 'creationism' generally and 'Biblical creationism' specifically?" Wait.  Read that question again.  Author Russ Miller isn't just suggesting that creationism generally, within all its forms, or young Earth creat...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! In the summer of 2016, the annual Crusaders Charge into Summer Reading campagin introduced us to Russ Miller, a storied and established Biblical creationist who lives, believe it or not, off-the-grid in a crater in northern Arizona.  If that were not crazy enough, during that summer, Mil...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Each year, the Northwest Christian School Board enjoys a session with the entire Northwest Christian secondary Bible team.  The open-ended conversation includes highs and lows, strengths and weaknesses, and a focus on whether or not the program is truly impacting students and helping the...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As we approach the month of May, a momentous shift is about to take place for students moving from high school and towards college and career.  Students will graduate from high school and, for many, from the direct oversight of Dad and Mom on a daily basis as they head to university, the...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today's Kingdom Culture Conversation is a tad longer than the norm.  It also follows a completely different format than what listeners may have come to expect.  This episode captures a completely candid conversation between Rev. Sandi Anthony and a stellar group of 8th graders as th...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! On Friday, April 10th, 2026, Northwest Christian releases it's 14th student movie:  "We Were Friends".  And, with fourteen movies under our belt, you may suspect that this cinematic contribution is more of the same... Not so. As we will hear today during a thought-provokin...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! In April of 1953, during a sermon in which he confronted the base distinctions between Communism and Christianity, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "We must admit that we as Christians have often lagged behind at this point. Slavery could not have existed in America for mor...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Each year, the Northwest Christian School Board enjoys a session with the entire Northwest Christian secondary Bible team.  The open-ended conversation includes highs and lows, strengths and weaknesses, and a focus on whether or not the program is truly impacting students and helping the...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Axis.org is the parenting resource you need right now. And, if you don't have a home church, or your Phoenix-area student is not invested personally and substantially within a youth ministry, Desert View Bible is the church you need to check out right now. With these two statements...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Each year, the Northwest Christian School Board enjoys a session with the entire Northwest Christian secondary Bible team.  The open-ended conversation includes highs and lows, strengths and weaknesses, and a focus on whether or not the program is truly impacting students and helping the...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Each year, the Northwest Christian School Board enjoys a session with the entire Northwest Christian secondary Bible team.  The open-ended conversation includes highs and lows, strengths and weaknesses, and a focus on whether or not the program is truly impacting students and helping the...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Many school advocate for "service learning", an educational concept defined as "an educational approach that combines meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.&quo...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As a director within Missions Door, Bob Lehman has a span of ministerial impact that is VERY impressive.  As the founding pastor of two unique church plants, his commitment to the community of the local church is BEYOND impressive. But, what spurs incredulity is that he has the passion a...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The U.S. Department of State describes the problem in jarringly acute terms:  "The Government of Cambodia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so.  Despite the lack of significant efforts, the govern...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As this episode hits, we are just 48 hours from the premiere of Northwest Christian's 12th annual NXNW student film, "10:17"!  This Friday, February 20th, at Harkins Norterra, the lights will drop and the film will roll. 10:17 is being described as "riveting" and...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Each year, the Northwest Christian School Board enjoys a session with the entire Northwest Christian secondary Bible team.  The open-ended conversation includes highs and lows, strengths and weaknesses, and a focus on whether or not the program is truly impacting students and helping the...