Podcast Episodes
Each episode page includes an audio link, overview, key quotes, chapter notes, and more!
From Celebrity Makeup to Disciple Maker
Jessica Shakir shares how God used unexpected circumstances to help her discover the source of lasting joy for her life. Leaving behind her work as a Hollywood makeup artist, Jessica founded The Beautiful Mind Academy. This online community teaches women how to think biblically, learning about God as the source for beauty, and helping them understand that they glorify him when they create things with beauty.
New Year’s Resolutions are Dead
Today on Ideas Have Consequences, we talk about how decreasing popularity of New Year’s Resolutions actually reveals how our culture thinks about success and victimhood.
Environmentalism, Transhumanism, and Your Life’s Worth (Part 2 of 2)
False worldviews can have devastating consequences on human life. Join us as we breakdown two prominent Western worldviews, Anthroprecence Anti-Humanism (extreme environmentalism) and Transhumanism and explore their implications.
The Birth of Christ & the Sanctity of Life (Part 1 of 2)
Christ’s birth implicates the immense worth of human life, which must change our thoughts and form our actions toward others. While our culture continues to move further from its Christian roots, how should we live and where can we find encouragement?
Feminist Turned Homemaker with Naomi Smith
Naomi Smith was a Modern Feminist who thought a woman’s value came from the workplace and from being like a man. After having her first child, however, Naomi realized that Modern Feminism erased the importance and beauty of Motherhood and the designed differences between man and woman.
You Can Disciple Your Nation!
Today on Ideas Have Consequences, we explore God’s call to us to disciple our nations, and how that inside-out process works.
Cultural Relativism in Missions with Gary Brumbelow
Gary Brumbelow was a missionary working with indigenous peoples in Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. He saw churches planted and many come to Christ, but was plagued with a nagging question: “Shouldn’t the Gospel going into a community bring about a change?” What was wrong? Hear about what would change Gary’s life and his concept of missions.
Respect for Marriage Act, A Misnomer
The so-called Respect for Marriage Act threatens the perfectly designed beauty of marriage by putting into law a radically harmful definition that misleads people about the transcendent nature of marriage.
Discipling Culture Through the Arts: With Jeremiah and Mona Enna
Meet Jeremiah and Mona Enna, leaders who use ballet to influence culture. They focus not just on making “Christian” art, but on making excellent art. Their lives help us understand what it means to be a balladeer!
Work and Loving Your Neighbor with Ena Richards
We all know we are supposed to love our neighbors, but how can we do that well? Ena Richards, a speaker at the recent DNA Global Forum, breaks down what it means to work for someone’s good and how we can love people into thriving.
Unity in Christ Before Ethnicity with Jessie Gistand
Today on Ideas Have Consequences, we interview Pastor Jesse, a Black Pastor in California who has been on the front-lines against Critical Theory and Marxism. We explore his history with the Critical Theory movement and the history of Critical Theory in the African American Church.
What is a Discipled Nation?
What exactly is a discipled nation? What does that sort of nation look like? This week we discuss real-world examples of discipled nations and what that means for the world.
Meet the Hosts
Scott Allen
President
Scott Allen serves as president of the DNA secretariat office. After serving with Food for the Hungry for 19 years in both the United States and Japan, working in the areas of human resources, staff training and program management, he teamed up with Darrow Miller and Bob Moffitt to launch the DNA in 2008.
Darrow Miller
Co-Founder
Darrow Miller is a world-renowned author and teacher on Christianity and culture, apologetics, worldview, poverty, and the dignity of women. In 1981, he began 27 years at Food for the Hungry, serving there as vice president from 1994 to 2007 until he helped launch the DNA in 2008.
Dwight Vogt
Vice President
Dwight Vogt serves as the vice president of international programs. Before coming to the DNA, he worked for 27 years at Food for the Hungry, including field-based leadership roles in Bangladesh, Peru, Thailand and Guatemala.
Luke Allen
Social Media Manager
Luke Allen serves as the marketing manager of communications. He works with strategy, social media, and graphics. He is newly wed, newly grad, and native of Phoenix.
Special guests featured regularly!
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