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Modern Man

Apologetics or evangelization, truth or connection — Christian men online have split into two camps, and neither one seems able to do it with love. Three hosts, no guests: parasocial relationships, comment-section culture, digital minimalism, and the question underneath all of it. Why do we love to watch conflict? Brad opens the split and asks how a Christian man is supposed to stand between the camp that fights for truth and the camp that fights for people. Sam names what the comment sections have actually become, and the old line that all good catechesis evangelizes and all good evangelization catechizes. Noah asks the harder question underneath it — what is it in us that wants to watch something blow up, and was that always there before everybody had an account. Along the way: Bishop Barron on who is actually qualified to teach, Jordan Peterson telling the church to ask more and not less, Arthur Brooks on the grandfather who was bored all the time and never anxious, Pascal on the man who cannot sit alone in a room, and Francis Chan's question about two rooms and which one the church would walk into. Then the bill arrives. Perceived purpose online is not real purpose in life. Nobody you argue with online has ever met you. A prayer hour becomes thirty minutes because a phone got the other thirty. The most important arena of your life is the one your feet are standing in — so look down. We exist to rediscover and redeem the heart of man in the modern world.