UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons – Details, episodes & analysis

In this last episode of Season 2, Gabe reflects on the mounting crisis in our world and how the tectonic plates of history seem to be moving. He uses the THINQ Framework to help us consider our response as Christians. 

Gabe encourages us to ask thoughtful questions like: Have we become too dependent on the current structures and systems? Have we lost touch with the way God has designed us to function—to create, to cultivate? The answers we come to might be uncomfortable, but necessary.

Listen in and see how, no matter what, we can walk in God’s truth and create a contagious hope that ignites change in our homes and across our communities.

Links to Learn More and Take Action:

• Create conversations that lead to wisdom about Sustainability.
• Grow your cultural discernment: Create a free Thought Leader account and view the THINQ Framework series. 
• Follow @gabelyons on Instagram and X and visit gabelyons.com.

Within the last year in the United States, we’ve seen an alarming rise in substation attacks and cyberattacks. We’ve seen paralyzing and deadly power outages due to tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and deep freeze. We’ve even seen an intelligence-stealing Chinese spy balloon traverse the country before being shot down.

It seems our country’s vulnerabilities are becoming more and more exposed, but what are we doing about it?

Tune in to hear Gabe and grid-down expert William R. Forstchen tackle the gravity of this issue and what we can do as individuals and as the Church to best prepare for unexpected and unpredictable situations.

Links to Learn More and Take Action:

• Watch my THINQ Conversation with Dr. William R. Forstchen: Grid Down Scenario.
• Grow your cultural discernment: Create a free Thought Leader account and view the THINQ Framework series. 
• Follow @gabelyons on Instagram and X and visit gabelyons.com.

The headlines would tell us the epic battle playing out in the U.S. is between right and left, liberal and conservative. But in this episode, Gabe gets underneath the real battle—the struggle between control and freedom.

Applying the THINQ Framework, Gabe implores us as a free-willed people to pay attention and understand the times. He explains what’s required for us to have true freedom and reminds us to consider the unique history and nuance of our unalienable rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

For a deeper dive, tune in next week for Ep. 2: Control vs. Freedom, Pt. 2.

Learn more at thinqmedia.com: Create a free Thought Leader account and view the THINQ Framework series as well as the “Democracy or Republic?” talk, in which Dave Zanotti, CEO of The American Policy Roundtable, discusses the difference between a democracy and a republic with political scientist and philosopher William B. Allen. Follow @gabelyons on Instagram and Twitter or visit his website at gabelyons.com.

How will the merging of technology, currency, biometrics and surveillance change how we live? The coming technocracy is closer than you think—in fact, you are helping build it.

In the conclusion of Season One, Gabe sets the stage for the future before us, encouracing Christians to consider where to draw moral and ethical lines and begin building resilient communities.

Paul Kingsnorth | The Prospect of Technocracy
Minxin Pei | What is a Social Credit System?
Yuval Noah Harari | 2020 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
President Joe Biden's Executive Order on Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing
Neuralink

We are experiencing a crisis of trust. Citizens no longer know where to go or who to listen to for credible information. Misinformation, polarization and self-censorship are a few of the consequences when belief begins to deteriorate.

In this episode, Gabe looks at how to respond, puts cancel culture on the hot seat and engages Malcolm Gladwell on how the Christian practice of forgiveness can be an antidote to our growing vitriol for those with whom we disagree.

You can follow Gabe on Instagram and Twitter: @gabelyons or visit his website at gabelyons.com

Sources mentioned this episode:

2022 Edelman Trust Barometer

Neil Postman | Building a Bridge to the 18th Century 

In our complicated cultural moment, Christians need to to offer hopeful solutions to society’s most pressing questions.

In this episode, Gabe Lyons gets personal, reading a private letter he was compelled to write and send to 200 Christian leaders. Now he’s inviting all of us to listen in and consider the urgency of the moment, including the Seven Ways the Church Can Lead.

Read the letter here: gabelyons.com/letter

Is your church looking to host dialogue on current issues? Learn more about what we offer at THINQSummits.com.

You can follow Gabe on Instagram and Twitter: @gabelyons or visit his website at gabelyons.com.

Creating an alternative future, built on timeless wisdom, will be essential for people to understand they have a choice other than being viewed and treated as a machine.

Listen in as Gabe explores what it will take to create and cultivate parallel structures brimming with life and meaning. You will hear historical and modern day examples of how leaders build the parallel and the important role we each get to play.

You can follow Gabe on Instagram and Twitter: @gabelyons or visit his website at gabelyons.com.

Sources mentioned this episode:

Vaclav Havel | The Power of the Powerless

Two distinct futures lay before us and we will all need to make a choice. Which will you choose?

In this first episode Gabe provides a helpful framework for understanding one future from the Church and history have been long warning us against: man is a machine.

You can follow Gabe on Instagram and Twitter: @gabelyons or visit his website at gabelyons.com.

Sources mentioned this episode:

Charles Dickens | The Tale of Two Cities
CS Lewis | The Abolition of Man
Joost Meerlo | The Rape of the Mind
Yuval Noah Harari: The 2021 60 Minutes interview
World Government Summit 2022

In our culture today, the acceleration of new ideas, technologies, trends and headlines coming our way can be overwhelming. We need a place to think well about the changing landscape of our world. UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons helps people of faith navigate this chaos and confusion with clarity and conviction. In a complicated cultural moment, Christians will be equipped with timeless wisdom, offering hopeful solutions to those looking for answers.

The practice of eugenics may cause you to conjure up the evil by-gone era of Hitler and Nazi Germany in World War II, but you might be surprised to learn about a new era of eugenics currently happening in America and around the world.

In this episode, Gabe gets underneath the clever vernacular some are using to cloak a more contemporary—but no less unethical—eugenics, like “modern genetics,” “gene therapy,” and “transhumanism.” He reveals how people are essentially playing God to create a “perfect” humanity but are, instead, manipulating God’s original and perfect design.

Tune in to get informed and think well about what this means for our human flourishing.

Links to Learn More and Take Action:

• Watch my THINQ Conversation with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Bioethics & Gene Therapy.
• Learn more about Transhumanism through my conversation with Dr. John Lennox: When Humans Become Machines.
• Understand why eugenics is racism: Eugenics and Scientific Racism.
• To explore a fictional future where genetic modification goes wrong, read The Children of Men by P.D. James.
• Read 20th century predictions in The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley or 1984 by George Orwell.
• Read my HuffPost blog Defense of Down Syndrome Children…Like My Son.
• Read this New York Times article reporting 90% of children born with Down syndrome are aborted: Prenatal Tests Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus.
• Read more about 23andMe selling genetic data to pharmaceutical companies: 23andMe Sold Your Genetic Data to GSK: What this Means for You, Your Data, and Your Health.
• Continue to grow your cultural discernment: Create a free Thought Leader account and view the THINQ Framework series.
• Follow @gabelyons on Instagram and X and visit gabelyons.com.