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Islam

Thursday, January 15, 2026 • Duration 02:28:40

In this powerful and timely episode, we examine the growing tensions between Islamic worldviews and the foundational values of the West—individual liberty, personal responsibility, and Judeo-Christian moral order. With a record 42 Muslim Americans elected to public office in the 2025 off-year elections—including historic wins like Zohran Mamdani as New York City's first Muslim mayor and Ghazala Hashmi as Virginia's first Muslim lieutenant governor - we're in a new moment for America. Rising mosque numbers (48 opened in Texas alone in the last 24 months) and escalating Christian persecution in Muslim-majority countries like Nigeria (7,000 Christians killed in the first 220 days of 2025) raise urgent questions about integration, influence, authority, and the future of our constitutional republic.

We explore Islam's history as a political-military conquest movement (from the 7th-century expansions to modern regimes in Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and beyond), doctrinal clashes (Sharia vs. the Constitution), unholy alliances (progressivism and Islam rejecting Christianity), and why forced collectivism—whether socialist or theocratic—undermines Western freedom.

Yet this is not a message of fear or judgement—it's an invitation to hope. Drawing from former Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Nabeel Qureshi, we contrast Islam's works-based path with the beauty of the Gospel: grace, self-sacrificial love at the cross, and resurrection power that defeats sin, guilt, and death while upholding human dignity. Jesus offers the most fulfilling answers to life's deepest questions.

Join us for a respectful, direct, and biblically grounded conversation that calls Christians to discernment, truth-speaking in love, and unwavering hope in Christ.

Apologists/Authors mentioned in the show:

Nabeel Qureshi

• Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity (2014)

• No God but One: Allah or Jesus? (2016)

• Answering Jihad: A Better Way Forward (2016)

Abdu Murray

• More Than a White Man's Religion: Why the Gospel Has Never Been Merely White, Male-Centered, or Just Another Religion (2022)

• Saving Truth: Finding Meaning and Clarity in a Post-Truth World (2018)

• Grand Central Question: Answering the Critical Concerns of the Major Worldviews (2014)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Infidel: My Life (2006 Dutch / 2007 English edition)

Nomad: From Islam to America (2010)

Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now (2015)

Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights (2021)

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Post-Truth, Politics, and the Pursuit of Something Real - with Nick David

Monday, October 6, 2025 • Duration 01:42:13

Nick David joins Jenna Hays and Amirah David to trace his shift from default left politics to data-driven centrism and a grappling with Christian faith. They unpack everything from COVID era trust, censorship claims, identity politics, free speech, church and state, to the myth of neutrality. The group models disagreement without contempt and ends with a simple challenge - separate people from ideas, prize truth, and keep your courage with grace.

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What is a Biblical Worldview?

Thursday, August 28, 2025 • Duration 01:11:13

We finally decided to do a whole podcast about the Christian worldview - applying the same grid of meaning as we have done in the past with other worldviews!

Atheism: Exploring Evidence & Faith

Season 2 · Episode 3

Saturday, June 21, 2025 • Duration 01:04:46

In this episode, Jenna and Amirah take a 30,000-foot look at atheism - not just as a lack of belief in God, but as a worldview with its own assumptions, claims, and consequences. From Nietzsche to C.S. Lewis, they explore the major philosophical players, the cultural rise of scientific naturalism, and why the Christian worldview still offers a reasonable, hope-filled explanation of reality.

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Agnosticism

Season 2 · Episode 2

Friday, March 14, 2025 • Duration 01:12:06

Can we really know anything about God?

In this episode, we dive deep into the worldview of agnosticism and explore why, despite claiming neutrality, no one can actually live as if truth, morality, and meaning are unknowable.

Join us for this exploration of truth, doubt, and the search for meaning. Is agnosticism neutral? We explore how the biblical worldview provides a solid foundation for a rational, meaningful life.

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Beyond Sides - A Higher Allegiance

Season 2 · Episode 1

Sunday, March 2, 2025 • Duration 01:16:15

In this episode, we explore the pressure to choose sides in America’s political and cultural divide. True healing begins when we see disagreement as an invitation, meet others with humility, and extend the most generous interpretation to their views and actions. We are advocating for a recommitment to the dignity of all people.

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New age follow up & discussion of some common objections to Christianity

Sunday, August 4, 2024 • Duration 01:10:19

We respond to some wonderful points brought to us from a listener related to positive new age intentions, as well as some common objections to Christianity including holy wars and hypocrisy.

Part 3 — The Practices of New Age

Season 1 · Episode 10

Sunday, May 5, 2024 • Duration 59:59

The practices of New Age while contrasting them alongside of scriptural wisdom

Part 2 - More history of the New Age movement and beginning to contrast it with a Biblical worldview

Season 1 · Episode 9

Sunday, May 5, 2024 • Duration 58:49

We were cut off at the very end, so we pick up again in Episode 3.

Part 1 - Introduction to New Age Spirituality and its Historical Roots

Season 1 · Episode 8

Saturday, May 4, 2024 • Duration 56:59

First, a brief life update from Amirah & Jenna. Next, in this episode we introduce what New Age Spirituality is, and how it answers the major questions (meaning, purpose, why are we here, etc.) We begin to dive into the historical and philosophical roots that have given rise to the modern day New Age movement.

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