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THINQ Media Podcast

THINQ Media (formerly Q Ideas) educates, equips and empowers Christian thought leaders to create conversations that lead to wisdom. We do this through our new digital platform, a podcast network, and a series of regional and national events designed to convene leaders around topics that matter to Christians today. Listen to the THINQ Media Podcast to learn, explore and consider how you can be faithful in our cultural context.
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Nov 3, 2025
Unresolved trauma, abandonment, and disappointment have become the status quo for many families in our society. In today’s episode, Matthias unravels The Family Estrangement Trend, walking through ways we can embrace and explore the pain of family estrangement rather than run from it.

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Oct 27, 2025
In today’s episode, Pastor Matt Chandler brings us a sobering yet hopeful message for today’s Church: courage without Christlikeness isn’t courage at all. Too many leaders either retreat to avoid fallout or hide behind precision to avoid engagement. Both, Matt reminds us, abandon the flock in a culture desperate for truth and grace.

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Oct 20, 2025
Today’s episode features Rebekah Lyons—author, speaker, and co-founder of THINQ Media. In this episode, Work with Your Hands, Rebekah helps us see the importance of using the two hands God has given us, not only to build beautiful things, but to use them as an act of worship.
 
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Oct 13, 2025
Today’s episode features Grant Skeldon. Author, speaker, and Next Gen Director of THINQ Media. In this episode, The Gen Alpha Opportunity, Grant helps us understand how you and I can not only connect with Gen Alpha, but how we can go about leading them and discipling them well.
 
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Oct 7, 2025

Today’s episode features Gabe Lyons—author, speaker, and co-founder of THINQ Media. In this episode, The Cost of Conversation, Gabe explores how meaningful dialogue—not just talking more—is essential in our polarized age, and he highlights what it really costs us to engage in it well. Though the costs are real, Gabe emphasizes the payoff: deeper trust, communal wisdom, the ability to discern better paths forward, and a culture that resists division and builds bridges rather than walls.

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Sep 29, 2025

Today’s episode features Jessica Hook—an accomplished artist turned champion shooter who has spent over a decade competing in action shooting sports. With a background in both the video game industry and high-pressure competition, Jessica has learned what it takes to stay focused when chaos hits.

She shares practical wisdom on building mental discipline, preparing for pressure, and even seeing failure as a step toward success. If you’ve ever struggled to keep your focus in stressful moments, this talk will give you tools to stay grounded and thrive under pressure.

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Sep 22, 2025

Today’s episode features Rebekah Lyons—author, speaker, and co-founder of THINQ Media. Rebekah is passionate about helping people take charge of their emotional health, and in this talk she shares four life-giving rhythms that calm inner chaos and make space for a flourishing life.

In a time when anxiety, panic, and depression are on the rise, these rhythms are more than just good habits—they’re lifelines that ground us and sustain us. If you’re longing for practices that bring peace, renewal, and hope, this message will encourage you to step into a healthier way of living.

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Sep 15, 2025

Today’s episode features Gloria Umanah—spoken-word artist, visionary of Hope Booth, and founder of The Ex-Nihilo Collective. Grant Skeldon, THINQ Next Gen Director, interviews Gloria about her story and the hope she found in the midst of depression.

Gloria reminds us of the power of community in a lonely world and the truth that every person with a pulse has a purpose. If you’ve wrestled with hopelessness or simply need encouragement to keep going, this episode will point you back to the life-giving hope found in Jesus.

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Sep 8, 2025

Today’s episode features Dr. Curt Thompson—psychiatrist, speaker, author, and podcast host of Being Known and NeuroFaith (A THINQ Media Podcast). He unpacks why anxiety has become the dominant emotion for the next generation and how we can respond with healthier practices.

Dr. Thompson offers practical tools for calming anxiety, regulating emotions, and creating space for both mind and body to thrive. If you’ve felt overwhelmed or burned out, this talk will help you find greater peace and resilience.

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Sep 1, 2025
Today’s episode features Dr. Alina Polyakova, President and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). She’s a leading voice on transatlantic relations, European security, Russia and Ukraine, tech policy, and populism.

At a time when global alliances are being tested and democratic institutions face real pressure, Dr. Polyakova brings clarity to the complex issues shaping our world. Her insights will help you better understand the realities of war and the shifting landscape of international security.

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Aug 26, 2025

Are you a parent or grandparent who wants to shift and shape culture? You'll enjoy today's episode! We’re featuring an important talk from our THINQ library by Mark and Jan Foreman: Raising Children That Shift Culture. Mark and Jan are pastors, authors, and the parents behind the Switchfoot frontmen, Jon and Tim Foreman. They share wisdom from their lives and their book Never Say No: Raising Big-Picture Kids, inviting parents to say "yes" to creativity, presence, and kingdom vision in their children’s lives. Tune in to hear how you can help your kids explore God-honoring passions while building trust through encouragement—not just rules.

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Aug 19, 2025

In today's episode, we're featuring a talk from our THINQ library called “The Fallacy of Control” by pastor & author Sharon Hodde Miller.

Sharon challenges the cultural lie that tells us control is peace. She describes how the illusion of control only fuels anxiety, fractures relationships, and burdens us with unrealistic expectations.

If you're holding too tightly to some things in your life, Sharon will help you look to God’s truth and the agency He’sgiven you. Listen now as she points you to look to the Holy Spirit in order to cultivate real power, freedom, and calm in your life.

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Aug 12, 2025

Today's episode features a talk from the THINQ library by Christine Caine called New, Not Next. Christine is an author, speaker, evangelist, and founder of A21 Campaign, an organization that combats human trafficking.

Christine flips a cultural script we’ve all felt: the pressure to chase the next title, the next opportunity, the next version of success. She reminds us that God isn’t looking for the next big thing from us—He’s inviting us to participate in something new He’s doing right now.

If you’re feeling stuck in comparison, burned out by ambition, or simply waiting for permission to move forward, this episode is for you!

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Aug 5, 2025

Today’s episode is a courageous and necessary one. You’re going to hear from Mo Isom Aiken, Founder of Bold Life International, who shares about one of the most sensitive and often misunderstood topics in the Church: sexuality.

In her talk, From Shame to Purity, Mo doesn’t shy away from the pain, confusion, or silence many of us have experienced in this area. Instead, she brings it all into the light—with honesty, grace, and a gospel vision that’s more redemptive than restrictive.

Whether you're a parent, a pastor, a college student, or someone just trying to navigate your own story, this conversation will challenge the narratives we’ve inherited and offer hope where sin and shame have taken root.

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Jul 29, 2025

As thought leaders, it’s our job to ask better questions than the rest of the world.

In this episode, Gabe Lyons wraps up our 5-part series on the THINQ Framework, unpacking the final piece–the “Q” for “QUESTIONS."

Listen in to find out how QUESTIONS are the tool that uncovers our assumptions and motivations and the compass that keeps our convictions rooted in truth and our tone shaped by grace.

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Jul 23, 2025

In this week's episode, Gabe Lyons unpacks the “N” for “NUANCE” in the THINQ Framework. He shares how NAUNCE is often misunderstood, but learning to hold tension, acknowledge complexity, and speak with grace is essential if we want to reflect the character of Jesus in today’s polarized culture.

Tune in to learn how we can communicate truth with both conviction and compassion as we work to think well about current cultural issues.

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Jul 15, 2025

In a culture of hot takes and hardened views, learning to ask the right questions can open hearts, deepen relationships, and reveal truth.

In this episode, Gabe Lyons uncovers the power of INQUIRY—the third lens in the THINQ Framework. Hear how the practice of asking better questions before offering quick answers gives us access to understanding others and influencing them with wisdom.

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Jul 8, 2025

You can’t make sense of the moment you’re in without knowing the history of how you got there. History anchors us to the bigger story.

Today’s episode features HISTORY as part 2 of the 5-part THINQ Framework. Gabe Lyons shares why understanding the broader historical context—what has come before us, what ideas have shaped us, and maybe where we've deviated from God’s vision—is essential to responding to cultural issues with discernment.

Tune in to hear how ideas have consequences and history remembers them.

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Jul 1, 2025

If you're a leader seeking to think deeply, live faithfully, and engage today’s world with wisdom, you’re in the right place!

In this episode, Gabe Lyons dives into the first part of the 5-part THINQ Framework: THEOLOGY. Acknowledging God as the Author and Creator of all things, Gabe urges us to approach any cultural issue with the question: “What’s God’s view on this?”

Tune in to hear how God's character, purposes, and story are the most important lens we should use to interpret everything else.

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Jun 24, 2025

In this episode, Gabe Lyons kicks off the 5-part “How to Think” series. He introduces the THINQ Framework, which offers a way to more easily understand and navigate the issues of our current culture.

Tune in now to learn how to think more critically, discern confusing topics, and inject truth and wisdom in the places and spaces God has us.

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Jun 17, 2025

This episode, we're continuing to bring biblical wisdom into the larger LGBTQ conversation, highlighting another special interview from The InFormed Parent Podcast with Suzanne Phillips. (Check out the last two episodes if you've missed them).

We’ll hear from January Littlejohn, a mother whose daughter was socially transitioned at school without her knowledge or consent. January shares her personal journey, exposing the dangers of gender identity ideology and the erosion of parental rights.

Listen in to hear January share how parents can get informed and avoid inadvertently outsourcing their role to doctors, therapists, and teachers.

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Jun 10, 2025

Do you believe no one is outside the saving grace of God? In this episode, Suzanne Phillips and Jenna Parker submit: “No one is too far gone.”

We're continuing with Part 2 of Jenna Parker’s detransition story from The InFormed Parent Podcast. If you missed Part 1, go back and listen! (The InFormed Parent is a podcast covering parenting and education topics within our THINQ Podcast Network.)

You'll hear more of Jenna’s story, how she walked through gender transition and then went through a miraculous detransition that included Jordan Peterson, a mother’s day event, and the Bible app!

Listen in to hear how it all played out!

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Jun 5, 2025

In this episode, Gabe Lyons highlights part one of a two-part interview from another podcast within our THINQ Podcast Network: The InFormed Parent with Suzanne Phillips. Suzanne is a parenting and leadership coach who has spoken at THINQ events and now covers current parenting and education topics for THINQ Podcast Network.

Suzanne's eye-opening interview with Jenna Parker helps us apply biblical wisdom to the larger LGBTQ conversation this month. Jenna is a 25-year-old young professional who walked through gender transition and later detransitioned in her early twenties. She bravely shares her personal story, shedding light on gender ideology, the cultural pressures surrounding it, and the emotional and psychological aspects of transitioning.

Listen in to hear how we can educate ourselves and speak boldly and faithfully into this complicated issue.

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May 27, 2025

In this episode we’re diving into the power of ideas—how they shape culture, influence our beliefs, and sometimes lead us astray, even when they come from a place of good intentions. You'll hear from Dr. Jeff Myers, president of Summit Ministries and a leading voice in equipping Christians to stand firm in truth amidst competing worldviews.

Dr. Myers unpacks how well-meaning ideas can sometimes have destructive consequences. He helps us sharpen our discernment so we can recognize false narratives, think critically, and respond with wisdom and conviction.

Listen in as he challenges us to engage thoughtfully with the messages we encounter, asking deeper questions and testing ideas against truth rather than emotion or cultural trends.

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  • Learn more about Jeff and his work with Summit Ministries.

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  • Apply the THINQ Framework as you think through cultural topics.

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May 21, 2025

In this episode, we’re tackling a pressing cultural issue—the crisis of masculinity. You'll hear from Jefferson Bethke, a New York Times bestselling author and speaker who has spent years exploring what it means to live with purpose, faith, and biblical manhood. He says: “Men want a story worth living and sacrificing their whole life for it.” 

Jefferson unpacks the confusion surrounding masculinity in today’s world. He challenges both the extremes of toxic masculinity and passive manhood, offering a vision of strength, leadership, and responsibility rooted in God’s design.

Let’s listen in as he reminds us that true masculinity isn’t about dominance or passivity—it’s about servant leadership, strength under control, and living with intentionality.

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