{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Shock Absorber","title":"Not 1976, Not 1826: Faithful Discipleship for 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2675,"description":"The books on the podcast studio shelf sparked a wide-ranging conversations on the Shock Absorber this week. John Stott's Issues Facing Christians Today (the 1984 edition, the same one Tim read as a teenager) and Winky Prattney's Revival set the scene for the discussion on revolution.\nJoel, Stu and Tim work through why John Stott mattered so much to a generation of evangelicals who'd been told they had to choose between preaching the gospel and caring about social issues. Why Stu gave up his first PhD at a Winky Prattney rally. What Billy Graham sitting on a rock has to do with everything. And what it looks like to be a faithful disciple in 2026 when the issues facing Christians are AI avatars, digital isolation and a world where your clone can attend a meeting for you.\nPlus: the top ten movies of 1984, Shaun the Sheep as a response to AI slop, and why the analog premium makes the church more valuable, not less.\nDiscussed on this episode\nJohn Stott - Issues Facing Christians Today\nWinky Prattney - Revival\nBilly Graham - The Jesus Generation\nGeorge Marsden - Fundamentalism and American Culture\nGraham Stanton\nThe Clapham Sect\nScopes Monkey Trial\nYMCA history\n\nTimestamps\n00:00 Stu writing till 2am, Ethan’s bookshelf upgrade and the smell of wisdom\n04:00 John Stott’s Issues Facing Christians Today \n05:00 Why Stott mattered — refusing the gospel vs social action divide\n08:00 British vs American evangelicalism — the Clapham Sect and the heritage of social conscience\n11:00 Stu on John Stott’s influence in Sydney — and meeting him at a traffic light in Amsterdam\n13:00 Winky Prattney’s Revival — the Jesus movement speaker who came to Sydney in the early 90s\n15:00 Stu gives up his first PhD at a Winky Prattney rally\n19:00 Why Stu didn’t want to build on someone else’s foundation\n21:00 Billy Graham on a rock — the moment that shaped 20th century evangelicalism\n24:00 The Scopes Monkey Trial and the fundamentalist movement\n26:00 YMCA as a cautionary tale — from thoroughly...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Xefvzfzzrkbs1GjU01qCch0kUaJzwBthG2qO_sgqCm8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/Lzg4NjYvMTU4NTEz/OTEyOS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}