When Feelings Become Truth: Critical Thinking in a Post-Truth Age | Juan Valdes

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of discerning truth in a post-truth culture, featuring insights from pastor and apologist Juan Valdes.

Episode Summary: We’ve entered a world where seeing is no longer believing. In a culture shaped by deepfakes, viral outrage, and endless information, a deeper question emerges: how do you know what’s real? When feelings become truth, reality doesn’t disappear; it just gets ignored. And increasingly, that confusion isn’t just out there; it’s showing up inside the Church. In this episode, we sit down with pastor and apologist Juan Valdes, author of How to Think: A Crash Course in Critical...

People in this episode

Guest: Juan Valdes

Topics covered

• critical thinking
• post-truth
• church
• reality
• culture
• information

Keywords

• critical thinking
• post-truth
• deepfakes
• viral outrage
• church
• reality
• information

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Books & works: How to Think: A Crash Course in Critical

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