The Ark Encounter, located in Williamstown, KY, is a wonder to behold, a life-size ark built to the dimensions described in the book of Genesis when Noah built the ark in preparation for the Great Flood. Opened in 2016, it is amazing to see, thought-provoking, and interesting to say the least. The Ark Encounter is the vision of creation scholar Ken Ham, an Australian author and speaker who has studied the book of Genesis for most of his adult life. Ham is a young earth, biblical literalist, so h...
Oct 27, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 231
Dr. Os Guinness is a highly regarded Christian philosopher and cultural commentator. In this second of four planned volumes, he delves into America's "agonistes" or struggle with itself and its heritage, a self-destructive conflict that could literally bring the nation to its nadir. Guinness's concern is the preservation of freedom. America became the leading nation in the free world not due to race or class but because of its intentions and ideals, it’s belief that humanity was created in God’s...
Oct 20, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 230
Nebuchadnezzar the Great, second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigned for 43 years. He was the most powerful man in the world, yet through the prophet Daniel God warned the king about his arrogance, pride, and the trust he placed in his empire and majesty. Later, when the king did not change, God banished him into a period of insanity, only to bestow grace and restore the king to power seven years later. The King learned that pride goes before a fall, that neither rulers nor great kingdoms...
Oct 13, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 229
Pundits, parents, and the public have been talking about the decline in American culture's civility and manners for some time, and not without reason. Fan behavior at the 45th Ryder Cup in New York, the coarsening rhetoric of American politicians, and no-limits social media are evidence. Many Americans, it seems, are coming of age never having been told by older family members they should respect their elders, speak politely, obey the law, and in general "be nice." If you work in a business deal...
Oct 06, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 228
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination freedom of speech has been a the subject of many columns, talk shows, and media reports, especially with the short-term suspension of Jimmy Kimmel by his network for comments he made about Kirk and re Fox News host Brian Kilmeade's comments on air about the killer of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska. In the face of the cancel culture and political correctness movements, conservatives decried how liberals sought to silence or get conservatives fired fro...
Sep 29, 2025•9 min•Season 4Ep. 227
Christian revivals are taking place on public university campuses across the country. Are these spiritual experiences real? Is this genuine interest in the Christian faith? Is God reaching out to Gen Z? Based on many comments of observers, participants, and leaders, it appears students are indeed seeking God in a new way. Pray God will send his Spirit among young Americans. For more Christian commentary, see my website at www.rexmrogers.com or check my YouTube channel @DrRexRogers. #revival #spi...
Sep 22, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 226
The common sympathetic phrase "Our thoughts and prayers are with you" was in the national news following the mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic Church school resulting in the death of two children and the injury of many more. The phrase oddly emerged not as condolence but rejected by national political and media figures who basically said prayers were not enough. Like so much else in American culture, this tragic event and the aftermath were politicized along ideological grounds. This podca...
Sep 15, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 224
The sudden, startling, violent death young Ukranian refugee Iryna Zarutska, slain with a knife in an unprovoked attack, and conservative youth activist Charlie Kirk, assassinated from 200 yards with a high powered rifle in a public venue in front of thousands of students, have shocked the nation. Iryna was 23; Charlie was 31. What a horrific waste of life. What grabbed America's attention is not only the youth, violence, and tragic nature of these killings but also that both murders were recorde...
Sep 11, 2025•9 min•Season 4Ep. 225
Since 2023, the U.S. Open tennis championships has substituted "America the Beautiful" for "The Star-Spangled Banner" and also featured "Lift Every Voice and Sing" for its men's and women's finals. Supposedly, "America the Beautiful" is more inclusive and less militaristic than the national anthem. MLB continues to play the national anthem, though "America the Beautiful" has been added in some parks during the 7th Inning Stretch. While the national anthem is not sacred, it has represented a patr...
Sep 08, 2025•9 min•Season 4Ep. 223
The Left claims our problems are the result of family or society or America, not our responsibility. Yet a minimal review of the evidence indicates that most of our trials and afflictions in life in this fallen world are the result of our own choices, or some near us. God gave us reasoning capacity, freedom, and responsibility to be good stewards. We do not need more or bigger government that cannot fix our problems. We need to act as God has given us the opportunity and holds us accountable for...
Sep 01, 2025•9 min•Season 4Ep. 222
John Wyatt and Stephen N. Williams' edited book, "The Robot Will See You Now," is a scholarly tome worth your time. Though it is now four years published, the chapters tap topics that continue to motivate, interest, and perplex anyone interested in how Artificial Intelligence and robotic technology is developing, contributing to, and possibly changing culture, in the U.S. and worldwide. Topics include science fiction, artificial intelligence, personhood and human uniqueness, sextech and simulate...
Aug 25, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 221
Robots, or robotic technology if you prefer, and now especially with artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming a fact of postmodern life. There are more of them in our midst already manufacturing products or providing services than probably most of us know or believe. Perhaps the most compelling question facing us is how will robots, particularly those made to resemble human beings, interact with and perhaps change the dynamics of what it means to be a human being? The philosophic, religious, mo...
Aug 18, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 220
Since the Tower of Babel if not the Garden of Eden, men and women have wanted to be like God or, cut to the chase, gods. This is apparent today in the myriad sex/gender arguments that ignore biology, culture, religion, history, and common sense, and it is evident in human outlook on marriage and family. While transgenderism is in cultural retreat of late, it is still a powerful, influential mass delusion, and the idea of self-marriage is not far off. While we hurt for those who choose to pursue ...
Aug 11, 2025•9 min•Season 4Ep. 219
Zohran Mamdani, the duly elected Democrat nominee for mayor of New York City is the new Democrat Party hotshot. Just like that, this 33-year-old New York State Assemblyman with four years' political experience displaced Sen. Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer as the face of the Democrat Party. The problem is, like the 83-year-old Sanders, Mamdani is a Democ...
Aug 04, 2025•9 min•Season 4Ep. 218
Few better, or worse, examples exist on how to torpedo your own brand than Simone Biles, Chip and Joanna Gaines, and the WNBA, all in the past few months. Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Biles suddenly decided trans insanity is something she should support on X, and not just this, but to do so by attacking highly regard Riley Gaines, a former NCAA swimmer and girls/women's sports advocate. Why? Transgenderism has not been an issue in gymnastics. Chip and Joanna Gaines of "Fixer Upper" fame and ...
Jul 28, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 217
Climate change is the now the all-purpose explanation for every weather event. Indeed, climate change is now being cited to explain social or political developments like immigration, racism, riots, gender wars, and more. But there's a problem: climate change cannot and has not been proven, despite the breathless online statements of influencers, media anchors, or politicians that it is The existential threat to humanity. But human beings cannot predict the climate years hence. Human beings canno...
Jul 21, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 216
The West, and specifically the United States, are in decline, jettisoning the values that made Western Civilization possible and allowed it to flourish, and seemingly bent upon committing cultural suicide. This can be seen in the increasingly violent rhetoric and public profanity of political leaders and in the increasing violence among militant protesters in the streets--indeed performance outrage. The more historic traditional values are jettisoned, belief in God, truth, moral virtue, law, lib...
Jul 14, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 215
Tattoos and possibly piercings have been part of the human story a lot longer than you might think, at least back to 3100 BC and probably earlier. It's just that in the 1940s-1950s tattoos were acquired by military and some others, then by the 1970s the Punk Rock movement promoted tattoos, followed by tattoos and piercings going mainstream in the 1990s, as featured on MTV. In the 2000s, body modifications of all kinds have become largely accepted. Question remains, though, should you get a tatto...
Jul 07, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 214
An old maxim from sociology borrowed from the ancient Greeks says, "Things are not always what they seem." This is certainly the case now with what's happening in American culture wherein given issues, incidents, demonstrations, and controversies, at least from the point of view of the political Left, are simply a means to an end. This issue and the chaos it generally generates are the means but the end is "power" for "the revolution." The Left makes no bones about wanting to tear down the Ameri...
Jun 30, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 213
War means destruction and death, so it is never preferable. But in a fallen world in which evil exists, war is sometimes inevitable and necessary. The motive for war can be debated. How war is conducted can be debated, but there will never be a world without war until the Prince of Peace returns. Peace is also an interesting concept. Some say, "Peace at any cost." Really, at any cost? No, life and liberty and the future of our children sometimes means we must go to war. Today we live in a time w...
Jun 23, 2025•9 min•Season 4Ep. 212
It's probably a dead giveaway that someone is getting older when you hear them say, "Things just aren't what they used to be." But in many profound ways, serious social change has taken place and things are very different now than just a half generation or generation ago. The list is long, beginning with a culture wide embrace of the idea there is no absolute truth. This idea, ironically accepted as a new absolute truth, undermines virtually everything in civilization's foundation--law and order...
Jun 16, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 211
June is Pride Month because activists were successful in encouraging three US Presidents to issue proclamations declaring June a special month for LGBTQ+ individuals. But is the celebration of sexuality, sexual choice, proclivities, and perversion, and immorality something we all must celebrate. Pride is a direct challenge to the biblically Christian worldview, the divine act of male and female created he them. Not accepting, not affirming, not promoting Pride is not a matter of hate but a matte...
Jun 10, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 210
Capital punishment is a perennial debate. Is it essential for law and order, or is it a cruel hangover from barbaric times? Religions and denominations, and certainly religious leaders, differ widely in their views. The Bible, however, affirms this form of ultimate retribution as a legitimate form of justice for certain heinous crimes and assuming the process by which the decision is made is impartial and based upon moral values. While many if not now most countries of the world have rejected ca...
Jun 02, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 209
Robots, humanoid robots, are not just coming; they are here. Question is, are we the smart humans ready for this coming change in our economy and its myriad ways it will affect our way of life? It's one thing to be served by robots at a candy kiosk or work alongside massive industrial robots usually separated by woven wire for safety sake. It is another thing to think of humanoid robots, those that can act like, look like, sound like human beings walking around in our homes. Will such robots act...
May 26, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 208
In the wake of Pope Francis's passing, the Roman Catholic church has selected a new leader, Pope Leo XIV, a man from Chicago, the first American ever appointed to the papacy. The question now is: what does Pope Leo XIV believe? Who is he and what will be his impact and legacy? Since he is immediately a global leader, these questions are legitimate and worthwhile. Pope Francis largely positioned himself as a political liberal. Will Pope Leo do the same? While I am not Catholic, I follow all this ...
May 19, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 207
In terms of material well-being, prosperity, and potential, the American people are the most blessed people in the history of the world. Yet we also consistently survey as less happy than citizens in other countries. One reason we are not as happy as we should be is that we seemed to always want "more," and as importantly, we spend more than we earn. In other words, we spend and live beyond our means, which of course can only go on so long. It's a path that leads to debt, deficits, and bankruptc...
May 12, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 206
Since President Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by businessman Elon Musk, DOGE has pursued its assignment - reduce federal spending and improve operational efficiency, meaning identify and cut "waste, fraud, and abuse," with vigor and rather startling effectiveness. Not everyone agrees, of course. Not media, not Democrats, not the Left, maybe others who lost or believe they will lose their federal jobs. For these, it seems DOGE is the enemy. But polls demonst...
May 05, 2025•9 min•Season 4Ep. 205
American society has become tolerant, even accepting, of bait and switch initiatives regularly pushed upon us. Media elites, celebrities, especially politicians and activists engage in this deceptive tactic regularly. Indeed, certain initiatives and organizations are par exellence examples of this tactic - Climate Change, BLM the organization, Planned Parenthood among them. What we need to recognize is that the old maxim borrowed from sociology still applies: "Things are not always what they see...
Apr 28, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 204
History is loaded with questions about which people once debated, sometimes fought to the death, or split churches, questions we now consider silly, laughable, or looney. But before we throw a rock, it does not take much to find questions being debated or argued today that are also irrational - Can a man become pregnant? Can a woman become a man or vice versa? Need I go on? At any rate, the arcane and inane questions once debated are amusing now and perhaps also thought-provoking, worth our revi...
Apr 21, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 203
Profanity is as old as humanity. We know this from reading ancient inscriptions chiseled in stone. But we also know that use of profanity is increasing in American culture, among children and youth, politicians, just about everyone. Swearing, cussing, vulgarity, obscenity have gone mainstream in both amount and intensity. In terms of civilization, this is not a good trend. In terms of e pluribus unum, this is not a good trend. In terms of education, law and order, religion, and public moral cons...
Apr 16, 2025•10 min•Season 4Ep. 202
