Welcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items.What is Human Flourishing?What is Heaven Like?Tech as aid or distraction?

Welcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director’s bag.

"Revering God" with Dr. Thaddeus Williams.This is a special edition of the Truthxchange Podcast where Joshua Gielow and Dr. Jeffery Ventrella have brief discussions with the featured speakers from the upcoming symposium, "Every Square Inch: Taking Christ's Lordship to the Streets.

"Redeeming Education: The Myth of Neutrality" with Dr. Joe Boot.This is a special edition of the Truthxchange Podcast where Joshua Gielow and Dr. Jeffery Ventrella have brief discussions with the featured speakers from the upcoming symposium, "Every Square Inch: Taking Christ's Lordship to the Streets.

"No Ruler is Above God's Law"Welcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director’s bag.

Created for Good Work This is a special edition of the Truthxchange Podcast where Joshua Gielow and Dr. Jeffery Ventrella have brief discussions with the featured speakers from the upcoming symposium, "Every Square Inch: Taking Christ's Lordship to the Streets.

Alt Right Statism or Cultural Marxism? This is a special edition of the Truthxchange Podcast where Joshua Gielow and Dr. Jeffery Ventrella have brief discussions with the featured speakers from the upcoming symposium, "Every Square Inch: Taking Christ's Lordship to the Streets.

"More on Christian Nationalism"Welcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director’s bag.

This is a special edition of the Truthxchange Podcast where Joshua Gielow and Dr. Jeffery Ventrella have brief discussions with the featured speakers from the upcoming symposium, "Every Square Inch: Taking Christ's Lordship to the Streets.

Pushback on the "Bold Pagan Buffoonery of Buffed Bronze Age Boys" Dicta.Welcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director’s bag.The Bold Pagan Buffoonery of Buffed Bronze Age Boys*

This is a special edition of the Truthxchange Podcast where Joshua Gielow and Dr. Jeffery Ventrella have brief discussions with the featured speakers from the upcoming symposium, "Every Square Inch: Taking Christ's Lordship to the Streets.

"A Truly Righteous Candidate."Welcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director’s bag.Dr. Ventrella, thank you for opening up your time to impart your wisdom in various areas of life as well as your theological knowledge on a wide range of things. As we enter into another election year, the clamour for who/how Christians should vote is about to begin. I am not convinced we have ever had a truly righteous candidate, (which one would think would make voting a whole lot easier!)-- This year we have candidates, in my opinion, again, who are both wicked in their own right, which makes it easier in my mind to not vote, but my friends say that that inaction is action for evil. Please consider sharing your thoughts on how Christians should vote( scripture references would be preferable), and why it seems like everyone has their own worldview on voting. Thanks, in advance.

This is a special edition of the Truthxchange Podcast where Joshua Gielow and Dr. Jeffery Ventrella have brief discussions with the featured speakers from the upcoming symposium, "Every Square Inch: Taking Christ's Lordship to the Streets."

The Creation Mandate and Christian SocialismWelcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director’s bag.Does the New Testament argue for "Christian" Socialism? Does Jesus fullfill the Creation Mandate so that I don't have to? These questions and more on the next "Director's Bag."

What is a Man?What About Christian Nationalism?Welcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director's bag.

"A closer look at preferences and precepts"Welcome to the Truthxchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director's bag. Does holding to doctrinal distinctives count as preference or precepts? At what point does precepts/preferences become preferences and not precepts? At what point do we break fellowship with those who are in this idolatry? And a  question about retrievalism and the 5th commandment.

"Reparations as atonement and Flesh bad/Spirit good."Welcome to the TruthXchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director's bag. Anonymous Hey friends, I have been reading a book on CRT adjacent called Reparations by Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson. One of the factors I am considering helpful in CRT is that society needs to take ownership for their past mistakes, specifically with white Americans who live off of the momentum gained by slavery in the US. Wouldn't it be more Christian of us to own our mistakes and sins and take of communities that have been made disadvantaged by slave ownership?   Greenville, SC Mr. Ventrella, I have been enjoying your weekly dictas and they have become the highlight in my Monday inbox, thank you! Your dicta, Embodied, made me think about dualism. I have been following TruthXchange for several years, and I have recalled a number of speakers in the past talks about dualism as always a bad thing. Are there any types of dualism where this is not the case?   Jackson, MS Dr. Ventrella, you quoted Andrew Sandlin in your dicta today, "The conflict is never between non physical and physical..." What about flesh and spirit? Aren't Christian encouraged to walk in the Spirit, not the flesh? In the end won't the world be burnt away, and just the spirit be left?

"Eating Edibles and Having Pride, to the Glory of God?"Welcome to the TruthXchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director's bag. Rachel, from NM Hi Dr. Ventrella, I wondered if you could talk a bit more about psychedelics and perhaps medicinal marijuana from a Christian worldview. Jordan Peterson has indicated that psychedelics may have been what Moses experienced in the desert with the burning bush, or what was kept in the Ark of the Covenant. You, along with others like Albert Mohler, seem to draw a conclusion that it is never good. I can think of a few scenarios where it can be of aid like a glass of wine, or for those who suffer from cancer. Is there a way to steward them well for God's glory?   Victor, San Bernardino, CA  Hey Joshua and Dr. Ventrella, I love the new Director's Bag podcast set up. I wish you had more released throughout the week. Keep' em coming. This month is pride month, and I admit I am not very charitable or eloquent in talking to believers or non-believers who are stuck in the lgbtq lifestyle. Do you have any advice for how you engage personally with the lgbtq community? Please keep me in prayer as I think through how I should engage them.

"Hey! Who Gave You the Power?"In this episode, Dr. Jeffery Ventrella addresses questions concerning: God as the Ultimate evil in a CRT worldview, Christian obedience to tyrannical power, and how should Caesar rule?Welcome to the TruthXchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director's bag."Dear Jeff, I have been reflecting on your series of dictas on CRT, and it occurred to me that if Christians make use of CRT as a tool in understanding worldview, would not that also apply to God, especially since we believe that He is God almighty? As the ultimate source of power, wouldn't that make him evil, or is that a straw man understanding of CRT?"   "Dear Dr. Ventrella, in your recent dicta, you call the State a servant and minister to the Lord. If I am not mistaken, that is also how scripture refers to the government in Romans 13, and maybe other places as well. What are your thoughts on how Christians are to respond to tyrannical governments today, and could those same thoughts and rules be applied to Christians in the first couple of centuries?"   "I don't see in scripture anywhere a command for how the government is to operate. You mentioned they are servants, where is the manual  for Nero or Titus on how to operate?"

Welcome to the TruthXchange Podcast: This is a weekly program with Dr Jeffery J Ventrella where he answers questions from subscribers around the globe, addressing issues about worldview, cultural apologetics, and other miscellaneous items. I am your host Joshua Gielow, and this is another edition of the director's bag.Abigail from Kentucky- 5 years old Mr. Ventrella, when I go to heaven will I still be a girl? Gary from California writes- Re: “Lies that Live” – Part 4 Embryos, IVF, and Means/Ends Confusion While reading the article, it struck me that the arguments you cited that are used to justify IVF mortality are essentially the same ones used to justify elective abortion.  When pro-life Christians (or non-Christians) argue against the justifications for abortion but then accept the identical justifications for IVF, they completely neutralize their argument and testimony.   Wilson from South Carolina writes- Dr. Ventrella, You wrote "How then should Christians conceptualize the State in a way which dispels the lies we live?  Has the Lord instructed us in such things?  Indeed, because Christ is Lord, His divine power has in fact “granted us all things that pertain to life and godliness.”[19]  This includes life and godliness in the public square including a theology of the State." Much of the New Testament seems to have an understanding that the Kingdom of God is not of this world and that we are pilgrims passing through, but here in the dicta you seem to imply that we should be involved, even to take the nation for God. How does this not lead to a type of Christian Nationalism? Is Christian Nationalism bad?