UnderCurrent with Gabe Lyons

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 [https://www.gabelyons.com/sustainable]. * Grow your cultural discernment: Create a free Thought Leader account [https://thinqmedia.com/signup] and view the THINQ Framework [https://thinqmedia.com/topics/thought-leader] series.  * Follow @gabelyons on Instagram and X and visit gabelyons.com [https://www.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 [https://thinqmedia.com/videos/grid-down-scenario]. * Grow your cultural discernment: Create a free Thought Leader account [https://thinqmedia.com/signup] and view the THINQ Framework [https://thinqmedia.com/topics/thought-leader] series.  * Follow @gabelyons on Instagram and X and visit gabelyons.com [https://www.gabelyons.com/].

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 [https://thinqmedia.com/videos/bioethics-gene-therapy]. * Learn more about Transhumanism through my conversation with Dr. John Lennox: When Humans Become Machines [https://thinqmedia.com/videos/when-humans-become-machines]. * Understand why eugenics is racism: Eugenics and Scientific Racism [https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism]. * To explore a fictional future where genetic modification goes wrong, read The Children of Men [https://www.amazon.com/Children-Men-P-D-James/dp/0307275434] by P.D. James. * Read 20th century predictions in The Abolition of Man  [https://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Man-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652942]by C.S. Lewis, Brave New World  [https://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1698023298&sr=1-1]by Aldous Huxley or 1984  [https://www.amazon.com/1984-Essential-Orwell-Classics/dp/6257120896/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2MYW6INP07YNW&keywords=1984&qid=1698023338&s=books&sprefix=198%2Cstripbooks%2C129&sr=1-5]by George Orwell. * Read my HuffPost blog Defense of Down Syndrome Children…Like My Son [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/raising-children-with-down-syndrome_b_1260307]. * Read this New York Times article reporting 90% of children born with Down syndrome are aborted: Prenatal Tests Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09down.html]. * 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 [https://cglife.com/blog/23andme-sold-your-genetic-data-to-gsk-personalized-medicine-ethics/]. * Continue to grow your cultural discernment: Create a free Thought Leader account [https://thinqmedia.com/signup] and view the THINQ Framework [https://thinqmedia.com/topics/thought-leader] series. * Follow @gabelyons on Instagram and X and visit gabelyons.com [https://www.gabelyons.com/].

You may not see it or feel it directly (yet), but food insecurity is on the rise across the world, which raises significant sourcing and sustainability questions.  In this episode, Gabe prompts us to consider our current food systems—who’s growing our food, where they’re growing it, how they’re growing it—and our dependence on it all.  Tune in to hear Gabe and several agricultural experts discuss what we and the local church can do to make food more accessible and affordable for our families and our communities.  Links to Learn More: * Leverage Gabe’s curated conversation starter talks [https://www.gabelyons.com/sustainable] on building resilience. * Congressman Massie on vaccines grown in vegetables [https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/thomas-massie-fda-usda-transgenic-edible-vaccines/?utm_source=luminate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=defender-wk&utm_id=20231001] * Watch Food as Freedom [https://thinqmedia.com/videos/food-as-freedom], by Jason Streubel, Sr. Director of Agriculture, Convoy of Hope. * Watch Gabe's THINQ conversation with Joey Lankford, Executive Director of Cul2vate, and Darren Whitehead, Lead Pastor of Church of the City: Fresh Food Systems [https://thinqmedia.com/videos/fresh-food-systems].

How can the wisdom of the past inform the future? In this episode, Gabe takes a closer look at what some have dismissed as the “old-fashioned” practices of the Amish community. In all our progress and modernity, he calls us to consider the lessons we can learn from the simplicity, resiliency, and sustainability of traditional Amish ways. Listen and think well about what it takes to build a life in which big innovations and technology don’t disrupt or devalue the priorities of community and family. Links to Learn More and Take Action: * Create conversations that lead to wisdom about Sustainability [https://www.gabelyons.com/sustainable]. * Watch Gabe’s recent talk on artificial intelligence: You & A.I. [https://thinqmedia.com/videos/you-and-ai] * Four Healthy Habits to Steal from the Amish [https://www.foxnews.com/health/4-healthy-habits-to-steal-from-the-amish] * What the Amish Teach Us: Plain Living in a Busy World [https://www.amazon.com/What-Amish-Teach-Us-Living/dp/1421442175/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3LDIQHI4NJFY4&keywords=graybill+amish&qid=1696716704&sprefix=craybill+amis%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-3] by Donald B. Kraybill * Watch Gabe’s THINQ Conversation with Donald Kraybill: Lessons from the Amish [https://thinqmedia.com/videos/lessons-from-the-amish]. * The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place [https://www.amazon.com/Tech-Wise-Family-Everyday-Putting-Technology/dp/0801018668] by Andy Crouch * Jayber Crow [https://www.amazon.com/Jayber-Crow-Wendell-Berry/dp/1582431604] by Wendell Berry. * Learn the benefits of local credit unions: Credit Unions vs. Banks [https://www.moneycrashers.com/credit-unions-vs-banks/]. * Vine and Fig Tree [https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/vine-and-fig-tree/], mountvernon.org [http://mountvernon.org/] * Join Gabe and Rebekah at Rhythms Retreat [https://www.rebekahlyons.com/retreat] Nov. 16-17.