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  • Os Guinness on The Future of Freedom

    Episode 1591 Aired October 3, 2021

    Are human beings born innocent or corrupt? Do we have the ability to create a perfect world, or is that impossible? Those drawing on Enlightenment assumptions assert that man is born pure, and that corruption comes through outside forces. In this view, utopia becomes achievable to the extent that we eliminate all sources of corruption. But rather than ushering in heaven on earth, this outlook actually has a long track record of creating totalitarian dystopias. So where is our culture headed at present, and which vision of man and society will ultimately prevail? On this episode, Shane Rosenthal talks with Os Guinness about the thesis of his new book, The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai’s Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom.

  • Violence, Revolution, & the Quest for Utopia

    Episode 1544 Aired November 8, 2020

    In response to the racial violence that he had witnessed back in the sixties, Os Guinness wrote that “Violence may be pragmatically successful in overturning an existing order that is corrupt, but it is utopian to imagine that the next order will be free of all such problems. All men are fallen.” He went on […]

  • The Impact of the Sixties Counterculture

    Episode 1543 Aired November 1, 2020

    “No one can understand the present crisis in the United States and the West without understanding the sixties.” So writes Os Guinness in the preface to a new edition of The Dust of Death, which he first wrote almost 50 years ago. On this program, Shane Rosenthal talks with Os about many of the themes […]

  • Renaissance

    Episode 1229 Aired October 26, 2014

    At the very time that many Christians have shifted their focus from the unchanging gospel to the transformation of culture, countless churches have been transformed in the name of relevance into Christian entertainment centers with motivational speakers. So are we actually changing the culture, or are we being changed by it? Is cultural transformation something […]

  • The Case for Civility

    Episode 1168 Aired August 25, 2013

    How should we present our case in the public square?  How have Christians failed at this in recent years?  On this program, Michael Horton talks with Os Guinness about recovering civility and persuasion in a post-Christian culture.  Os is the author of numerous books on the intersection of faith and culture including Dining with the […]

  • The Quest for Relevance

    Episode 1004 Aired July 4, 2010

    Churches in our time appear to be on a never-ending quest for contemporary relevance.  But is this a wise course to take?  Shouldn’t the church stand up for the timelessness of truth, rather than the timeliness of the trendy?  On this edition of the White Horse Inn, the hosts talk with Os Guinness, author of […]

  • The Case for Civility (Part 2)

    Episode 933 Aired February 22, 2009

    On this edition of the White Horse Inn Michael Horton continues his conversation with special guest Os Guinness, author of The Case for Civility, And Why Our Future Depends on It, published by HarperOne

  • The Case for Civility (Part 1)

    Episode 932 Aired February 15, 2009

    On this special edition of the White Horse Inn Michael Horton talks with Os Guinness about pursuing civility in a Post-Christian culture. How are we best to make our case in the public square? In what ways have Christians failed as they have attempted to do this in recent years? Os is the author of […]

  • The Quest for Relevance

    Episode 839 Aired May 6, 2007

    On this edition of the White Horse Inn, the hosts talk with Os Guinness, author of Prophetic Untimeliness: A Challenge to the Idol of Relevance, and Fit Bodies Fat Minds: Why Evangelicals Don’t Think and What to Do About It.