Beneath the Headlines

About Beneath the Headlines

Each month, pastor Mike Woodruff sits down with a thoughtful guest to trace the quiet forces shaping tomorrow’s news. No hot‑take sparring. Just brisk questions on birthrates, algorithms, ideas, and idols, all aimed at giving thoughtful Christians a clearer map of the moment and a steadier hope within it. Expect solid data, memorable lines, and a nod toward grace. Subscribe and gain a firmer grasp of the stories happening beneath the headlines.

Publisher

Mike Woodruff

Category

religion & spirituality · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Aug 2020

Latest episode

10 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 141 episodes have a transcript.

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   10 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Andy Crouch on AI, Tech & What's Ahead

   Andy Crouch, Partner for Theology and Culture at Praxis, discusses AI, technology, and the future with host Mike, offering insights into our technological present and what lies ahead.

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   26 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The State of the World with Dr. John Owen

   The world is growing stranger each day. Many things are unstable and up for grabs. One is the role of the United States should take in the future world order. Dr. John Owen has been studying and writing about America's place in the world for over two decades. He is currently serving as a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, and a Senior Fellow at both the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. John–who earned his PhD at H...

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   20 Jan 2026

   The Age of Hitler with Alec Ryrie

   For the past 75 years, our culture has been more united by what we oppose than by what we believe. We don't know what we're for, but we know we're against the Nazis. This "anti-Hitler ethos" has served as society's shared moral compass, but Dr. Alec Ryrie argues this foundation is now eroding in concerning ways. In this episode, Dr. Ryrie, a professor of history of Christianity at Durham University and author of widely acclaimed books including Protestants and Unbelievers, presents a provocat...

Inside a recent episode

Andy Crouch on AI, Tech & What's Ahead

Published 10 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And this means that at extreme cases like South Korea, which is at a 0.7, if I'm not misremembering this, replacement rate, that is the average number of children a woman has is 0.7. Since it takes, generally speaking, a man and a woman to have a child, that means you are less than half of the number of children you need just to keep the population what it has been. In 100 years, there is no nation of South Korea as we know it. Now, that's extreme, but the rest of the world is all on that track. And this is the one thing that they say in the social sciences, demography is destiny. Like these demographic trends are so long wave, they're so big, they're so inexorable, and they take decades to play out, right? […]

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YouTube views

367,139

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

61 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

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75

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

51

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