Episode Details

What makes people surrender themselves to a mass movement—and why are periods of cultural instability especially fertile ground for them?

 

In this episode of The Magistrate, Josh Howard is joined by Cory Wing to examine Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer, Harold Brown’s work on sensate culture, and the Christian response to revolutionary movements, social unrest, and ideological fanaticism.

 

They discuss disaffected young men, family breakdown, the search for identity and meaning, and why Christianity offers something fundamentally different from utopian political movements.

 

How should Christians recognize the forces shaping our cultural moment without being captured by them?