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Each week, The World and Everything in It features a “Culture Friday” segment, in which Executive Producer Nick Eicher discusses the latest cultural news with John Stonestreet, president of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Here is a summary of this week’s conversation.

A recent Time Magazine survey asked “life’s most interesting questions” to a variety of people the magazine considered influential. The questions ranged from, “Is monogamy obsolete?” to “Will robots need rights?”

The Time survey seemed to assume, like Justice Anthony Kennedy did in his Supreme Court opinion on same-sex marriage, that culture has evolved, therefore important questions about relationships and technology must be re-examined.

“In reality, some of these questions are pretending like we’re new humans and we’re not the same humans we once were,” said John Stonestreet, president of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

Stonestreet noted only two of the participants in the survey were known Christians: pastor Andy Stanley and author Jon Acuff.

“It just reminded me how far from the center of the conversation Christians find themselves,” Stonestreet said. Christians themselves have contributed to that marginalization by seeing their faith as personal and privatized. It begs the question asked by Dorothy Sayers, a colleague of C.S. Lewis: “How can any one remain interested in a religion which seems to have no concern with nine-tenths of his life?”

“The church is just not the center of these conversations anymore,” Stonestreet said. “And I think that gives us a very clear calling. When it comes to these very important questions in life, first of all, the secularist answers to these questions are going to be anemic. And, secondly, Christians have something to say and a responsibility to say it.”

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