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French Friday: The Gaines, Gaza, and "The Bear" (Patreon)

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2025-08-01 10:00:13
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Some Christians are calling for Chip and Joanna Gaines to be cancelled because their new HBO home improvement show features a married same-sex couple. David French and Skye Jethani discuss whether it’s really a principled stand for traditional Christian values, or a target of opportunity for online trolls. Scenes of starvation in Gaza are provoking international outrage, and even Israeli human rights organizations are now calling the situation a “genocide.” As Israel’s most important ally, what is America’s responsibility? And season 4 of “The Bear” includes powerful themes of repentance and redemption.

0:00 - Theme Song

1:58 - Chip and Joanna Gaines Controversy

20:18 - Pluralism

29:35 - Gaza Update

35:47 - Laws of War

45:48 - Moral Injury

51:19 - The Bear and Repentance

1:06:15 - End Credits

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Mike and Karmel Pope

Unpopular opinion here, but I’ll share it. I truly want to love and accept people whose lifestyles or choices I believe are sinful or morally wrong according to my understanding of the Bible. I have several friends like this, and we respect each other’s perspectives. However, when it comes to my entertainment choices, I intentionally avoid content that normalizes or celebrates what I believe to be morally wrong. I do not want my standards, shaped by my reading of the Word, to gradually shift toward worldly ways. This has happened to me before, when I found myself entertained by something and even sympathetic toward a character or behavior before realizing it was contrary to Biblical standards. That said, I will watch stories that include wrongdoing when the consequences of that wrongdoing are also shown (e.g. Fatal Attraction) or when it is a true story. So, for me, if I turned on a Chip and Joanna Gaines show and saw a same-sex couple featured regularly, I would feel disappointed because I trust certain creators to align with my values in their content. For me, avoiding entertainment that consistently portrays LGBT relationships is not about a lack of love or acceptance for LGBT individuals. It is about guarding my heart and mind according to the convictions I hold.

Justin Fleming (The Typer)

Big agree with Skye here on the Gaines conversation. At a HP+ event in Detroit Tim Alberta kinda summarized this mindset being discussed as "lazy Christianity". The way a lot of Christians talk about the existence of media that portrays things they see as a sin as normal or acceptable often comes out as "I don't want to have to explain our view on these things to my children, that's more difficult." And I'm not against media that makes that easier for parents, but it cannot be the same as the richness of the conversation Skye had with his daughter at the restaurant. TV and movies cannot be what we rely on to tell us what Christianity is/isn't, it should not shelter us from the world. I'd even argue that by just hiding the acceptance of relationships outside the 'traditional Biblical definitions" as a normal perspective in media only makes Christians more sheltered and angry when they see it in front of them. I can't count how many grown adults Christian people I've seen get grossly uncomfortable and feel the need to be cruel, mocking, or rude the minute they see a same sex couple. We (White evangelicals) spent decades thinking about this in a way that just makes us more and more uncomfortable with a sinful world when Jesus didn't seem heavily concerned with it. If anything he chastised the religious people who criticize Him for eating with those that were viewed as sinful by all sorts of classifications (nation of origin, moral lifestyle, poverty).

Erik Bjornstad
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I think how you're couching this falls under the principle of each person obeying their conscious in matters of choice. Which is probably the right way to go about it.

Ronda Stewart-Wilcox

We lived in San Francisco for 4 years. In a neighborhood that was heavily Middle Eastern and Asian. I loved our community and the variety. (Then we moved to 80% white KY. Reverse culture shock.)