Culture Brief - Christian perspectives on the week's biggest news, sports & pop-culture stories
Hosted by Conner Jones and Micah Tomasella and Conner · Denison Ministries
4.6from 44 ratings
- 91
- Episodes
- 32
- Transcribed
- 44
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Culture Brief - Christian perspectives on the week's biggest news, sports & pop-culture stories
The world moves fast. Every week brings new headlines, viral moments, political debates, sports stories, technological breakthroughs, and cultural trends competing for your attention. Culture Brief helps you stay informed, think biblically, and engage the culture from a Christian perspective. Join host Conner Jones and friends every Thursday as they break down the biggest trending stories of the week and explore what they mean for Christians. From elections and global events to movies, music, AI, sports, and internet trends, they offer thoughtful biblical insights, practical takeaways, and informed predictions about where today's headlines may lead tomorrow. No partisan spin. No outrage. Just honest, engaging conversations about the issues shaping our world and what Scripture has to say about them. If you want to keep up with what's happening, understand what's coming next, laugh a little along the way, and navigate today's culture with wisdom and conviction, this is the podcast for you. New episodes every Thursday.
- Publisher
- Denison Ministries
- Category
- news · religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Dec 2024
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
32 of 91 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Thwarted terror plots, Christa Pike’s botched execution, Russian plague & October sports updates | Ep. 89
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Gen Z okay? A student minister on purpose, sports betting, self-image & deadpanning | Ep. 88
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Trump banned CNN and MS Now, UN leaders can't agree & Ella Langley dethrones Mariah Carey | Ep. 87
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Thwarted terror plots, Christa Pike’s botched execution, Russian plague & October sports updates | Ep. 89
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I know everyone's a little different, but there's people that do this for a living day in and day out that are really good at finding veins. But I think part of the problem and the reason that it's now up to 8% of lethal injections don't go the way they're supposed to. And so nearly one out of 10. And part of it is because around 2010, the human rights group in the UK called Reprieve started pushing pressure on companies that were making a lot of the drugs that are used in these lethal injections, started putting pressure on these companies to stop providing them to prisons. And eventually all the companies caved because of the public backlash and the bad PR. […]
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- Josh Miller
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- AJ Baxley
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Who hosts Culture Brief - Christian perspectives on the week's biggest news, sports & pop-culture stories?
Conner Jones and Micah Tomasella and Conner host the show. Published by Denison Ministries.
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