Axis Conversations
Each week on Axis Conversations, we survey cultural trends, host expert interviews, and answer listener questions to help parents and caring adults understand and disciple the next generation
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 132
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Roundtable: Your Kids’ Friends, Giving Up AI, and The Shooting at Annunciation
Three Big Conversations:
- A solution to the problem of what to do when our kids have friends we don’t like
- Why some high school and college students are giving up the use of AI
- The aftermath of the t…
CT: Your Kids’ Friends, Giving Up AI, and The Shooting at Annunciation
A solution to the problem of what to do when our kids have friends we don’t like, why some high school and college students are giving up the use of AI, and the aftermath of the tragic shooting at An…
Ask Axis: “Help! I feel overwhelmed with technology!”
“I’m sure people are asking this but I am overwhelmed with technology. I have put into place the parental controls on the iPhone and my 15 yr old hacks around it. I bought him a bark phone now. But I…
Special Roundtable: What do we do about smartphones?!?!
It’s Smartphone September, and we’re releasing a whole suite of new content aimed at the glowing rectangles that dominate so much of our lives, and how families can navigate these devices with wisdom…
Roundtable: Roblox Lawsuits, Laufey, and Taylor Swift’s Engagement
Three Big Conversations:
- Roblox is getting sued for failing to protect children from online predators. - 6:58
- Jazz-pop musician Laufey sings about self-worth on her new album (language). - 26:48
- Wha…
CT: Roblox Lawsuits, Laufey, and Taylor Swift’s Engagement
Roblox is getting sued for failing to protect children from online predators, jazz-pop musician Laufey sings about self-worth on her new album (language), and what the celebration of Taylor Swift and…
Dr. Preston Sprinkle & Laurie Krieg on Helping Kids Navigate a Sexually Broken Culture
I’m here today with Dr. Preston Sprinkle and Laurie Krieg, the President and Director of Parent Programs respectively for the Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender. Preston is a New York Times–bestsel…
Roundtable: The Queen of RichTok, Back to School Fashion, and AI Doomsday Preppers
Three Big Conversations:
- The Queen of RichTok makes $500,000 necklaces seem boring. - 07:34
- Back-to-school trends come with a Y2K flair. - 25:50
- AI researchers are preparing for the worst.- 39:34
S…
CT: The Queen of RichTok, Back to School Fashion, and AI Doomsday Preppers
The Queen of RichTok makes $500,000 necklaces seem boring, back-to-school trends come with a Y2K flair, and AI researchers are preparing for the worst.
Slang of the Week - “6-7”
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Ask Axis: “How do my kids survive the AI-pocalypse?”
"How do you think artificial general intelligence will affect our children? How do we prepare our families for AGI's advent in 2 to 3 years?" - Christina
Roundtable: GPT-5, The Stiletto Challenge, and The 30-Minute Ick
Three Big Conversations:
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- The “Nicki Minaj stiletto challenge” encourages influencers to film themselves balancing on one stiletto-clad foot. - 05:50
- OpenAI released GPT-5 and users hate it. - 16:0…
CT: GPT-5, The Stiletto Challenge, and The 30-Minute Ick
OpenAI released GPT-5 and users hate it, the “Nicki Minaj stiletto challenge” encourages influencers to film themselves balancing on one stiletto-clad foot, and why time (unfortunately) flies when we…
Lee Strobel on Seeing the Supernatural
After earning a journalism degree at the University of Missouri, Strobel was awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship to study at Yale Law School, where he received a Master of Studies in Law degree. For…
Roundtable: The Summer I Turned Pretty, News on TikTok, and Cultural Blandness
Three Big Conversations:
- The Summer I Turned Pretty is back for its 3rd season and is taking over Amazon Prime. - 3:00
- What it means that 40% of 18 to 29-year-olds get their news from TikTok. - 25:3…
CT: The Summer I Turned Pretty, News on TikTok, and Cultural Blandness
The Summer I Turned Pretty is back for its 3rd season and is taking over Amazon Prime, what it means that 40% of 18 to 29-year-olds get their news from TikTok, and why it feels like most people aren’…
Ask Axis: "How do I talk about body image issues with teen girls?"
Pheba writes in to say: “Hi! I’m excited about the podcast. I’d like to hear about navigating body image issues with teen girls.”
This podcast is entirely Q&A based! Send in your questions to ask@axi…
Roundtable: I Have One Daughter, Tea Dating Advice, and The Fantastic Four
Three Big Conversations:
- A TikTok creator named Lewky takes idiotic dating app exchanges and turns them into musical skits
- the social media app Tea which allows women to share red flags about specif…
CT: I Have One Daughter, Tea Dating Advice, and The Fantastic Four
A TikTok creator named Lewky takes idiotic dating app exchanges and turns them into musical skits, the social media app Tea which allows women to share red flags about specific men gets hacked, and M…
Roland Warren on Why Being Pro-Life Is Not Enough
After 20 years in the corporate world (with IBM, Pepsi and Goldman Sachs), Roland Warren spent 11 years as president of the National Fatherhood Initiative before joining Care Net in 2012 as president…
Roundtable: Septum Theory, the Coldplay Kiss Cam, and Short-Form Videos
Three Big Conversations:
- The term “septum theory” is being used online to suggest that women with septum piercings make trauma their whole personality - 13:16
- What the Coldplay Kiss Cam footage goin…