The Surprising Rebirth Of Belief In God

I love the show, but hoping season 2 can transition off of the conservative analysis soon. I appreciate it, but I think 2 episodes on that topic would have been fine, instead it’s been the whole second season thus far

Ugh. He means the rebirth of belief in Christianity. With the supposition, of course, that that’s the only plausible way to conceptualize God. Classic apologetics.

Season two so far is lack luster! What is this focus on male identity, get off this! And your theory that people are coming back to the church is only applicable to the people interviewed. Ironically the UK Is lost its faith, so the rest is focused on a lot on US. Find your faith first. I believe in the one true God and not the god of the people!

I loved the first season of The Surprising Rebirth…, in spite of its clunky title. I waited expectantly and impatiently for season two, only to find it has gone down a rabbit hole of obsession with the ARC and other far-right elements and personalities. Alarm bells went off when, during the first, ARC broadcast of season two, Ayaan Hirsi Ali equated progressives with treachery and spoke about her approval of Donald Trump’s agenda in the U.S. Then the podcast just couldn’t let it go, and the first several episodes of season two lovingly massaged every possible angle of revived masculine participation in church — which, although to be celebrated if it isn’t just a mask for Christian nationalism, is very different from hearing individual stories of newfound faith from people who once had none. Why the myopic, minute-by-minute focus on the state of Jordan Peterson’s faith life? Do we care more about Peterson, the pied piper of bro culture, than anyone else? Clearly (and surprisingly!) the Surprising Rebirth producers do. The rest of us may not. Unless the show returns to individual in-studio interviews, and balances conservative voices with more center and progressive ones, its focus has drifted regrettably from its inception. I’m very sad, as we in the U.S. need desperately to hear from less politically strident followers of Jesus, and many of us rely on the U.K. for the sanity that much of the evangelical church here is lacking.