Kingdom Culture Conversations

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Merriam-Webster defines a "plumb line" as "a line (as of cord) that has at one end a weight (such as a plumb bob) and is used especially to determine perfect verticality".  For Jay Rudolph, who has spent decades in the radio industry, a plumb line is the perfect pictu...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! In the post-pandemic world, the numbers tell us clearly that youth are at risk.  Teen suicide and the frequency of mental health diagnoses are at a historic high.  Yet, just when youth need it most, their participation within local church youth ministry is in decline. National polls of E...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It's homecoming week on the campus of Northwest Christian School and the team is excited to welcome home former superintendent, Matt Davidson.  Davidson served as Northwest Christian superintendent from 2007 to 2010 before taking the role at Timothy Christian School in Elmhurst, Ill...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! So, maybe it's not exactly what you'd call "viral" but, nevertheless, it's a Youtube-based video that has been making the rounds within communities of evangelical Christian students that have a bent towards theology:  "Destroying Calvinism in 3 Minutes"...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The Sutton Project began in 2010 when a teacher was torn between her love for the students of NCS and her desire to impact an impoverished community of students in south Phoenix.  She pulled a few students and teachers together and managed to scratch together 150 Thanksgiving meal boxes...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The Sutton Project began in 2010 when a teacher was torn between her love for the students of NCS and her desire to impact an impoverished community of students in south Phoenix.  She pulled a few students and teachers together and managed to scratch together 150 Thanksgiving meal boxes...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The unforgivable sin.  According to Jesus in Mark 3:29 , all sins will be forgiven men except for one--the unforgivable sin. It would seem, reasoned the student that submitted this question to "What About?" Wednesday, that we'd want to figure out what the unforgivable sin...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Christian education in Russia.  Yes, you read that correctly.  And, not only is it happening, it's been happening for thirty years. Three decades of Christian education within a nation with a track record of hostility towards the Gospel is not for the faint of heart.  For the brave...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Stuart Delony is unabashedly snarky.  In fact, you could call it his trademark.  He's unapologetic.  He's direct.  He uses profanity.  And, he is calling out the inconsistencies within Evangelical Christianity and the American church, distinctions between what Jesus called His...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! The return of a tradition!  It's the debut of "What About?" Wednesday for the 2023/2024 school year! Today, on Kingdom Culture Conversations, we're thrilled to welcome apologist Robby Lashua, of Stand to Reason, back to the International Podcast Headquarters of Kingdo...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Yesterday, we started a conversation with Dean Schifferer, a general contractor who is called to what he calls "the ministry of construction". Today, we continue the conversation as we discuss, specifically, the impact of the forthcoming collision between ministry, construction...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Dean Schifferer isn't in it for the money.  Now, let's recognize that well say this.  And, truth be told, sometimes it can be hard to tell. But, not so with Dean.  After listening to today's Kingdom Culture Conversations, you will be presented with some pretty solid eviden...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Great Hearts America is a thriving network of publicly-funded charter schools, encompassing tens-of-thousands of students in Arizona, Texas, and Louisiana.  They are rooted in what is popularly termed "Classical" education and their approach to learning and formation are very t...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As a function of their roles within the Association of Christian Schools International, Cecil Swetland and Jerry Bowen travel the western region of the U.S. and have a front row seat to an unsettling development within the cultural conflicts that are happening in schools and libraries. ...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! On Thursday, August 24th, 2023, Summit Ministry's Director of Biblical Worldview Education, Roger Erdvig, travelled throughout the campus of Northwest Christian School, visiting classrooms and assessing the strength of the school's Biblical worldview instruction. Today, on Augu...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Roger Erdvig's is the Senior Director of Worldview Education within Summit Ministries, one of the leading purveyors of Christian Worldview education in the world.  Erdvig's book, "Beyond Biblical Integration",  represented a tectonic thinking shift within the world of...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Would Jesus get the Covid vaccine or wear a face mask? Would Jesus advocate for open borders or immigration reform? Would Jesus advocate for gun control? Some within the church would say "yes".  Some within the church would say "no".  And, they would all point to spec...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Political corruption.  Global warming.  Resurgent racism. Summer 2023 was one for the books. After having spent the majority of the summer working through his seminal Christian worldview work Kingdom Education, today, we check in with Dr. Glen Schultz, the founder and director of Kingdom...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Summit Ministries is one of the leading Biblical worldview student engagement ministries in the world.  As a Summit rep, each year, Bonnie Blair engages schools and families, representing over 80,000 students hungering to better understand how God's word interfaces with contemporary...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Can you still pray in the USA? Turns out, yes.  You can. With three public-school-educated students of his own, Eric Buehrer was a public school teacher before founding Gateways to Better Education.  He is a published author and nationally-recognized authority on the subject of religion...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! It's inevitable.  There are some pains associated with progress...and, this year, we'll have a year of progress as Northwest Christian School builds a new classroom building...the first phase in what looks to be three years of ongoing construction involving three different proj...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As today's episode of Kingdom Culture Conversation drops, the campus of Northwest Christian School is awash with preparations for the new year!  Looking forward to the first day of the 2023/2024 school year, August 7th, folks may be curious...what academic adventures, memorable mini...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! As today's episode of Kingdom Culture Conversation drops, the campus of Northwest Christian School is awash with preparations for the new year!  Looking forward to the first day of the 2023/2024 school year, August 7th, folks may be curious...what academic adventures, memorable mini...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! School districts kicking out Christian student-teachers for reason of their Christianity.  Teachers hiding pending student gender transitions.  Explicit library books.  American history being rewritten. Have we lost our minds? Glen Schultz is a legend in Christian education.  Having had...

The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! School districts kicking out Christian student-teachers for reason of their Christianity.  Teachers hiding pending student gender transitions.  Explicit library books.  American history being rewritten. Have we lost our minds? Glen Schultz is a legend in Christian education.  Having had...