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Transforming Culture

Muskoka Bible Centre

The world is rapidly changing. Every time we blink, it seems there’s a new cultural rule that we all have to follow. It can feel like waves crashing on us: we want to love others well, but also lead them to Jesus truthfully. Join us for Transforming Culture, where we take a deeper dive into how Christianity and the Bible interact with society and culture. These podcast episodes are based on sessions taught live at Muskoka Bible Centre as a part of our summer ministry programming. MBC"s mission is

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52:24

Praying Through This Political Moment

Transforming Culture ·

2025/11/14

We're back with an incredible first-time guest to the podcast, who also happened to be a first-time teacher to MBC this past summer, Bobby Scott. Bobby was a wonderful addition to our MBC line-up, and was full of wisdom, humour and grace as he taught us about prayer throughout his week of ministry with us. Speaking of prayer... Bobby happens to be from Los Angeles, and I guess I should have seen it coming, but he is definitely a Dodgers fan. I was praying for a Blue Jays World Series win,

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78:39

Rhythms of Family Discipleship

Transforming Culture ·

2025/11/07

We're back with Transforming Culture, season 4, and we're already on Episode 4 - very hard to believe that things are moving along this quickly! I'm excited to welcome back our friend Dustin Boreland, who has been a regular at MBC both in the summer and also at as a part of some of our retreats in the non-summer season. Taking time to take care of your spiritual health is important, and that's exactly what Dustin is here to talk about today. Being formed spiritually is increasingly

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54:45

What is Truth?

Transforming Culture ·

2025/10/31

It's episode 3 of Transforming Culture - and we're here for all of October and November sharing the podcast for those of you who didn't get a chance to hear our Bible teachers this summer at MBC (and to be honest - for some of you who did - I love getting messsages from people asking "when are the episodes going to drop?!?" The heart behind the Transforming Culture sessions, and so also this podcast, is to get information and wisdom into your hands so that you can be equipped to share and

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59:48

What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?

Transforming Culture ·

2025/10/24

Welcome back to the second episode of Transforming Culture, season four! We're glad to have you on board. This week, we're listening to Wyatt Graham talk about what the Bible says about abortion. At first glance, this seems like a topic that, at least for an Protestant evangelical podcast like ours, is one that feels settled - most of our listeners know how they feel about this, one way or the other, so why would we have a session about it on the podcast? I have to admit that I thought it

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69:54

Caring for Refugees

Transforming Culture ·

2025/10/03

Welcome everyone, to the fourth season of Transforming Culture. With a few thousand downloads and a whole bunch of amazing conversations, it's so cool to be back for another season of discussion and learning - we're glad you're here! Each summer, we invite our Bible Teacher of the week to share a talk on Tuesday nights about how we can engage faithfully as disciple of Jesus in the modern culture in which we're place. Our summer theme in 2025 was "Prayer", and I can tell you that our Bible

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66:21

Why Religious Freedom Matters

Transforming Culture ·

2025/03/03

Here it is: our very last episode of Transforming Culture for Season 3. It's been a ride for us this year trying to navigate all the ups and downs of production issues, so thanks for staying with us through it all! This week, we've invited a special guest, Kristopher Kinsinger to join us to talk about religious freedom, and why it matters. As we were recording this in the summer of 2024, there were lots of questions about elections, politics and how it would affect us all. Some of those

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56:51

Marriage as a Foundation for Flourishing

Transforming Culture ·

2025/02/24

Welcome back to Transforming Culture - a podcast about asking hard questions about we can engage with and transform the world around us as we work to keep faithfulness in our Christian lives. I'm excited that we get to speak with Phillip Marshall this week, who was at MBC in the summer of 2024 for the very first time! Phillip is an intelligent, thoughtful speaker and many people benefitted from him as you will too - enjoy! ----- ----- -----Speaker Bio:Phillip Marshall is an Associate

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57:40

Big Pharma: Harmful or Helpful

Transforming Culture ·

2025/02/13

Welcome to episode 6, season 3 of Transforming Culture. This week, I'm excited to welcome Norm Millar, who was our Bible Teacher at MBC in week 8 of the summer. (Reminder: we had some technical glitches after the summer and so the season order of our podcast doesn't line up with our weekly summer order...) After our Bible Teachers are picked each year, I reach out to them with a request for their Transforming Culture topic. There's usually a bit of back and forth, talking about what is the

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79:26

Thinking Biblically about Social Issues

Transforming Culture ·

2025/02/06

We're in the home stretch of Transforming Culture for this season... more than halfway there! This week, we're thrilled to have a session with Shai Linne (yes, that Shai Linne!) as he talks about thinking biblically through social issues. We asked Shai to perform a concert at MBC last summer, and also slid in the opportunity to speak at our Transforming Culture session that week - we were thrilled when he said yes. Shai's life experience and ministry meant that he was very qualified to

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59:45

Friendship and the Church

Transforming Culture ·

2025/01/30

Welcome back to our fourth episode of this season of Transforming Culture - we're glad you're here! This is our first time with a returning guest, and we couldn't be more pleased that it's Stephen Bray, from Mile One Mission. Steve is a generous, gentle but oh-so-funny guy, and uses his disarming personality to draw you into beautiful conversations. This week, we're talking about Friendship and the Church, which is not a topic I would have thought was on the list for this year, but as you

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50:47

Going to the 10/40 Window

Transforming Culture ·

2025/01/23

Welcome to our third episode this season of Transforming Culture! I'm very excited to be hearing from and talking to Adam Brown, a professor who serves in Abu Dhabi in the UAE. Adam served as a pastor in Ontario before moving to the Middle East, and brings a great sense of humour but also seriousness to his session about serving as a missionary internationally. Growing up in Canada, I heard a LOT about the 10/40 Window, so it was great to hear from personal experience what it's been like

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63:40

The Sin of Lust and Culture

Transforming Culture ·

2025/01/16

Welcome back to Transforming Culture - new year, new podcast! We're excited to finally be rolling into Season 3 each week now that we've got our tech issues sorted out! This season will be a bit "out of order" compared to other years as we continue to play with little glitches, but we're just happy to have our content coming to you! This week we're hearing from Robbie Symons about the sin of lust, and as you'll hear in the episode, it's one of the most blunt, hard-hitting sessions we've had

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42:45

God's Calling in a Changing World

Transforming Culture ·

2024/12/16

Welcome back to Transforming Culture - we're finally here with season 3! For those of you who have been patiently waiting for the release of this season because of technical delays - thank you! There were a couple of summer audio recordings that we couldn't recover, and so we've had to switch up the model a little bit for some of the work that we did (including this episode!). We're dropping a couple of episodes before the Christmas season, and then will be back in the New Year with the

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2:31

Season 3 Trailer

Transforming Culture ·

2024/10/11

Welcome to Season Three of Transforming Culture.... almost. We've had a bit of a delay from the technical end, so we're a little bit delayed. Thanks for bearing with us!

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56:55

Parenting the Next Generation

Transforming Culture ·

2023/11/20

Welcome to episode eight of this second season of Transforming Culture! This is our last episode of season two (we only had eight weeks of Transforming Culture sessions in Summer 2023 because of our partnership with Creation Ministries International during our last week of the summer), but we're glad to go out with a bang! as our friend Lawson Murray brings a whole bunch of wisdom about what it's like to parent the next generation, and how we can be ready to love our kids towards

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71:56

The Social Gospel - Right or Wrong?

Transforming Culture ·

2023/11/13

Welcome to episode seven of this second season of Transforming Culture! We're hearing from Sunder Krishnan this week about what it looks like to follow Jesus in light of the suffering of others, and particularly: what do we do with this thing called "the social gospel"? Is that even a thing? What does Jesus have to say about it? Listen in to his session from summer 2023 at MBC and a short Q&A afterwards! ----- ----- -----Speaker Bio:Sunder Krishnan received his Master’s Degree in

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54:24

Disability and the Church

Transforming Culture ·

2023/11/06

Time flies when you're having fun... right? We're already at week six of our season of Transforming Culture, and the sessions are getting better and better! Today, we have Paul Martin speaking to us about disability and the church, which is a relevant topic considering that 22% of the Canadian population over the age of 15 experiences a disability of some kind. Paul's mission to work well in this area has already blessed MBC in many ways, including a number of his church members

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79:59

Thinking Through Immigration

Transforming Culture ·

2023/10/30

Welcome to episode 5 of this second season of Transforming Culture! We've got a great episode for you today that starts out talking about a specific topic (immigration), but also dives deeply into a lot of different areas of how Christians should engage with tough issues. Our teacher, Juan Sanchez, brings personal experience to this discussion, but also a ton of professional experience, and I felt personally blessed by getting to talk with him about it. Enjoy the episode! ----- -----

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62:58

Living in a Post-Christian Canada

Transforming Culture ·

2023/10/23

It's episode 4 of this second season of Transforming Culture! Half-way through this season already, but we're really excited for this week of the season, because Dustin Boreland, our speaker, brings a great session on living as exiles in a Canadian context that doesn't really look like it did 50-60 years ago. Dustin is a lot of fun to interview and process this information with, and I love his heart for ministry. ----- ----- -----Speaker Bio:Dustin Boreland serves as a pastor at Springvale

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61:18

Pluralism: Confident Faith in a World of Many Beliefs

Transforming Culture ·

2023/10/16

Welcome to episode 3 of this second season of Transforming Culture! Today, we're welcome Bernard Mukwavi, who is speaking to us about pluralism, and what it's like to live in a world of many beliefs. He's a wonderful man, and is incredibly passionate about this conversation, which we love! Enjoy this episode, and let us know what you think! ----- ----- -----Speaker Bio:Bernard serves as the Dean of Canadian Baptist Seminary as well as the District Minister of the British Columbia Baptist

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