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Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers is a podcast applying unchanging biblical principles in a rapidly changing world, doing Christian critical thinking, or spiritual discernment, about current issues, culture, and everyday life (Phil. 1:9-11). Rogers is former longtime president of Cornerstone University and now President of mission ministry SAT-7 USA. He is the author of "Gambling: Don"t Bet On It," "Christian Liberty: Living for God in a Changing Culture" and its ebook "Living for God in

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9:36

Adulting, Boys to Men, Gen Z

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/10/05

Gen Z, twenty-somethings and older teens, especially young men, seem to be struggling with what's now called "adulting," the ability and willingness to assume the ordinary responsibilities of adult life--working consistently, managing money, maintaining a household, forming lasting relationships, accepting responsibility for one's choices. Question: is it that circumstances in this era are so different from any other era, or is it that youth are largely untutored in Christian worldview and th...

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9:39

Alethophobia, Error, and Truth in a Cynical Age

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2026/09/28

It seems illogical, because it is, that human beings would not only come to believe truth is relative, preferential, circumstantial, but now also to not believe in truth at all. Or the next step, to dislike or fear truth, to simply reject facts, but such an idea is emerging in American and Western society. It's called alethophobia. Arriving at this point is no minor development. It's significant, for it leads to cynicism and nihilism, the hopeless idea that nothing matters, that life has no m...

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9:45

Dollar General, Pricing Inconsistencies, Business Ethics

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/09/21

Dollar General is a nationwide grocery and retail store chain operating over 21,000 stores. Take a trip and you'll see them "everywhere." So Dollar General is well-known to put it mildly. Typically, prices for many items like milk, for example, are less than other area grocery stores or gas station convenience marts, so many people pop in for a few items. I do, for there is a store about 3 miles from our house. But the issue, and recent controversy, is whether Dollar General regul...

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10:00

Americans Don't Read, They View

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2026/09/14

Americans don't read like they once did and most purchased books remain unread. What Americans do is "view"--online, screen time, television. We get our information and entertainment, or as often "infotainment" via audio/visual media, not via the printed word. This matters because our minds, critical thinking capacities, and ability to learn, discern, and make decisions differ substantially between reading and a/v. And the generations read or view differently, hence the ever fragmenting way t...

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9:55

Reforming the Immigration System

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/09/08

Immigration remains a political hot button. Congress needs to act, but political winds seem to prevent it from doing so. Meanwhile, America remains at risk to individuals coming to America who do not share American values and do not want to assimilate or pursue the American Dream. Rather, they want to tear down American civilization. It's time for reform. For more Christian commentary see my website www.rexmrogers.com or check my YouTube channel @DrRexRogers. #immigration #security #borders #...

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9:47

Flock Cameras in a Surveillance Society

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/08/31

Flock cameras are less than ten years old but they seem to have taken the country by storm. Governments buy them, place them on poles, then AI runs identifies cars, license plates, and apparently more. A lot of data. Questions for the public: is this another invasion of privacy? What if this data gets in the wrong hands? What about incidents already reported in which police have misused the tech to stalk their exes or others? The company, Flock Safety, offers pithy responses refuting all this...

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9:55

Thinking About Nuclear Power

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/08/24

Nuclear power is the cleanest and most efficient, some say most cost effective, form of creating electric energy. Yet the U.S. is reluctant to pursue it for a host of political reasons. Nuclear power is safer than its image, it is not nuclear weapons, and it is environmentally friendlier than other forms of energy production. What is holding us back? For more Christian commentary see my website www.rexmrogers.com or check my YouTube channel @DrRexRogers. #nuclearpower #energy #cleanenergy

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9:55

Thinking About AI Data Centers

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/08/17

AI data centers are being built at a fast and furious pace, and along with this have generated significant pushback. Citizens are raising concerns about electricity, water, land, noise, and more broadly, surveillance potential. Asking someone if they are "For" or "Against" the latest proposed new data center in their area and the answer might be, "It all depends." Good arguments for and against can be identified. AI as such is not going to take over the world, but people controlling AI ...

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9:51

American Youth Adrift In Cynicism

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/08/09

Gen Z, teens and 20-somethings seem to be having a time of it. Mental health crises, depression, anxiety, disillusionment, lack of trust, and much of it rooted in cynicism, which sadly often leads to nihilism. In a word, many young Americans are struggling. Given widespread rejection of religious faith, unstable families, and world events like COVID, it is understandable, but this knowledge doesn't make it easier on them. They need help, especially biblical understanding that can restore pers...

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8:59

Making America Healthy Again

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2026/08/03

"Making America Healthy Again," MAHA, is Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) RFK, Jr's theme and goal for his Trump appointed job at HHS. A zion of the Kennedy family, a longtime Democrat and titular liberal, committed to supporting the Trump Administration if the then-candidate and now President gave RFK a chance to pursue his later-in-life's passion. RFK is indeed eager to do something meaningful to improve America's food and eating habits, reduce child autism, improve school meals...

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9:45

American Patriotism Needed Now More Than Ever

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2026/07/27

A certain segment of the American citizenry has of late looked upon patriotism as something hokey, corny, out of date, or worse, an impediment to their globalist inclinations. But patriotism that remembers, celebrates, and applies America's exceptional founding ideals is needed now more than ever--belief in the Creator, acknowledgement that our life and liberty, indeed all our human rights, come from God not government, that the government governs by the consent of the governed, and that the ...

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9:53

The Sad State of American Higher Education

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2026/07/20

I spent 35 years in higher education. Loved every minute of it. Love campus life. Loved the process of learning, critical thinking, debating. But today, when I look at what's happening in much of American higher education I am saddened. Like many other sectors of American society, academia is not simply buffeted but in many ways and many institutions succumbed to leftist ideology, so-called "woke" perspectives, moral relativism, and politics rather than a search for truth. Not all faculty and...

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9:55

Cultural Appropriation or Appreciation

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2026/07/13

If you admire, adopt, and adapt the practice of another culture, these days, you're immediately accused of a new sin the left calls "cultural appropriation." Don't you dare learn from and use a tradition, food, clothing, etc developed by another culture for this is theft, pure and simple. Or so says identity politics. But could it also be what it has been since the dawn of time, intercultural communication and exchange, learning, sure--maybe absconding at times--but mostly just cultural evolu...

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9:50

What Is Democratic Socialism?

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/07/06

Democratic Socialism, leftism or Marxism by any other name, is once again ascendant in the US among the young, the restless, and the woefully ill-informed. It is a wolf in sheep's clothing and has never--got that, never--produced a healthy, free, and prosperous society in all of history. But it is dangerous and a threat to American well-being, so we need to learn about it, what it is, certainly what it is not, and how it can be sent back to the dustbin of history where it belongs. For more Ch...

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9:57

Semiquincentennial Patriotism

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/06/29

July 4, 2026 is America's 250th birthday. Many will celebrate with their expressions of patriotism. Some, seemingly a lot, will not celebrate, unable to separate their patriotic feelings for their country's heritage and ideals from contemporary politics and personalities. Or, too many Americans simply now reject America's heritage and ideals, considering the country's blessed history one of "settler colonialism" or "imperialism" or "white supremacy," yada, yada. It's sad, really, for pa...

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9:48

Virtue Is the Foundation of a Free Society

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/06/22

"Virtue" is an old word, not used much today, unless with its narrower late-19th Century meaning referring to feminine modesty and chastity. But it is a word the Founding Fathers knew well and a concept they discussed at length, for they believed that a free society could not endure without a virtuous citizenry. For them, the old broader meaning of the term applied, moral character, judgment, integrity, concern for the common good, self-restraint. A virtuous citizenry would govern themselves;...

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9:42

Fathers More Important Than Ever

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/06/14

Fathers are key to healthy children becoming mature adults. Absence of a father, inattention of a father, engagement with a bad father can decimate, even destroy a child's life. Many of the social pathologies America is experiencing today track back to a breakdown of the family and often the impact of a poor father - boys in prison, adolescent girls getting pregnant, drug and domestic abuse - it sadly goes on and on. Fathers in this technological age are as important as ever. Presence, right ...

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9:50

Nuclear Family: State of the Union

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/06/08

The nuclear family, sometimes called the traditional or natural family, Dad, Mom and a few kids, has been under duress since the 1960s. Earlier it was social trends, cultural change, economics, education and employment decisions, that put pressure on the family, but later and more recently its been intentional targeting by groups like Black Lives Matter or leftism in general. Also, since 1973, abortion has played a negative role, along with the broader sexual liberation movement. Yet hi...

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9:42

Sports Betting Still a Bad Bet

Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M Rogers ·

2026/06/01

Sports betting in the USA is on a roll, and the gambling missteps or crimes of high profile athletes and coaches does not seem to have slowed this juggernaut. In 2018, the Supreme Court allowed states to determine their own approach to sports betting. By 2026, twenty seven states have legalized online sports gambling. With the explosive growth of apps like DraftKings, FanDuel, and more, American adults can bet on sports 24/7. Now add "prediction markets" to the mix. So...

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9:51

Social Change in My Lifetime

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2026/05/25

Change is a fact of life, some good, some not so good. In my three score and ten years American culture has witnessed extensive change. I'd argue much of it is not good and that we are not better off than we used to be -- technologically maybe, and that's a maybe, but not morally, not culturally. Think with me a while on some of these changes - abortion, same-sex marriage, transgenderism, moral relativism, socialism, antisemitism, nihilism, and more. For more Christian commentary see my websi...

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