The first in a series of podcasts from Enculture, a work of Bethel Kelowna.

Nobody debates the mask mandates without feeling the heat this discussion generates. When masks are so simple, cheap, and well-known why does the argument have at least as much intensity as the vaccine debate? Is there something deeper going on? Tom tries to dig a little deeper, and encourages us to itch beneath our masks.

In this episode, Tom explores the arguments in favour of churches resisting government prohibitions on gathered worship, and teases further out the importance of desire in our response.

Cruciform thought centers around a new Epistemology, a new way of thinking, in issues such as abortion.

Abortion is not the problem or the solution.mp3

Why the right answer is so hard to find 

The first of a new series investigating identity issues and what it means to live cruciform.

When we take a particular issue, like transgenderism for example, we cannot effectively address it when we are not coming from the cross. The Christian church has failed society for years and to turn it around we must address the beam in our own eye.