Guest Host: Jonathan Noyes
Jon talks about the negative effects of social media on mental health and gives tips for raising kids in this culture, then he answers questions about why God redeemed humans and whether or not we still have a responsibility to preach the gospel to all nations.
Topics
- Commentary: Don’t give your kid a smartphone. (00:00)
- Why do you think God chose to redeem human beings when he didn’t need to? (27:00)
- Do we still have a responsibility to preach the gospel to all nations, and was it wrong for the missionary who was recently killed along with his wife in Haiti to have brought her with him to a dangerous place? (26:00)
- Commentary: More on how smartphones affect mental health and other societal problems (48:00)
Mentioned on the Show
- The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
- Reality Student Apologetics Conference – September 13–14 in Los Angeles, CA; October 18–19 in Seattle, WA; November 8–9 in Minneapolis, MN; February 21–22, 2025 in Dallas, TX; March 21–22, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA
- STR U Online Training
- Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
- #STRask podcast with Greg and Amy
- STR Outposts