Kingdom Culture Conversations

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! From posts in schools like Phoenix Seminary and Arizona Christian University, author and professor Dr. John DelHousaye has championed extensive research and academic study  in what most would consider to be critical areas of understanding for Christ followers: Jesus Christ, the gospels,...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Several years ago, at Northwest Christian in Phoenix, bowing to concerns regarding its content, Mr. Brown removed "1984" by George Orwell from the sophomore reading list. Today, in a Kingdom Culture Conversation with Dr. Matt Spivey from Arizona Christian University, Mr. Brown...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It is unquestionably a dystopian classic:  George Orwell's "Animal Farm".  This brief book paints a poignant picture of Stalinism run rampant in culture using simple, almost amusing, allegorical images of animals living on a farm in turn-of-the-century England. It's a...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Avatar broke all the box office records.  And, this Christmas, we will launch into the first of five scheduled sequels:  Avatar 2:  The Way of Water. But, as we'll learn today, secular media have dubbed James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator, Avatar), the director and producer, as &quot...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Uh oh.  We have finally done it.  We kicked the hornet's nest. The Harry Potter books and movies may very well be the biggest cross-genre franchise in the history of publishing.  And, the titular character, a budding adolescent wizard, has become beloved by both Christians and non-C...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It's one of the first things that we learn when we study worldview...everyone, whether they know it or not, has a worldview.  And, as a result, we all carry an intrinsic bias, a predisposition, into our lives.  Each decision we make.  Each piece of communication we produce.  Each qu...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Ellie Cunningham, the Women's Ministry Director at CalvaryPHX, returns to Kingdom Culture Conversations to engage a simple, but difficult, question that nags at us all at one point or another:  Why? Why does God allow hard things to unfold in the lives of His children?  Why is the C...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It's a question that is increasingly being asked within the field of education and beyond.  Have we reached a point within our culture in which it is now time to do away with grades and academic marks of any sort? As related in a recent article from the Los Angeles Times which relat...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Hybridized education.  Online education.  Blended education.  On-the-ground education. There is a growing menu of learning options that are available to families.  What do each of these options mean?  How do I know which is best? In today's far-reaching Kingdom Culture Conversation,...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It's a love/hate relationship. On the one hand, there are some that love online education.  On the other, there are those that despise, insisting that on-the-ground education is the clearly superior option. Perhaps, however, the truth is that we have reached a point within contempor...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! On Thursday, May 26th, 2022, in the Grand Canyon University Arena, Northwest Christian graduated the class of 2022.  In an utterly enjoyable evening full celebration, reflection, and joy, the highlight very well may have been the commencement address given by Bill Harbeck. Bill is a long...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! No matter how passionate you may be about pro-life causes, the numbers do not lie. For years, abortion providers have been targeted on a spectrum of aggressiveness. The National Abortion Federation reports more than 176,000 instances of picketing at clinics (and nearly 34,000 arrests) si...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Disaster tourism.  Creating dependency.  Robbing dignity.  Exacerbating racial divides.  The detractor's list of criticisms for short term missions trips is long.  Is there any virtue to be found in short term missions trips? As today's podcast hits, there is a team of teachers...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! To say that Ellie Cunningham "grew up in the church" is neither an exaggeration or a figure of speech.  Quite literally,  under the constant gaze--and, sometimes, scrutiny--of parishioners within one of the largest churches in the city, she experienced life in a fishbowl:  her...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The numbers are not good. And, they are getting worse. Stephanie Siete has been recognized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a frontline warrior in the battle against drug abuse.  She works closely with first responders, federal investigators, government officials, educators, and...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As part of a Frameworks tradition, Throwback Thursdays represent our occasional forays into the past.  In this iteration of Throwback Thursdays, we're going back several years to a summer reading series--spent in the Psalms--in which various staff and faculty of Northwest Christian...