The Subtext: Skinny Culture, Open Theism, Anger!

We’re doing a temperature check of different cultural artifacts, including the UFC Freedom 250 fight, open theism, the gift of anger, and skinny culture.

This week on The Subtext, Savannah and Lee do a full cultural temperature check. They react to the UFC Freedom 250 chaos (yes, including that post-fight interview), dig into a listener’s question about Open Theism and whether God actually knows how the story ends, explore why anger gets genderized, and wade into the online debate around ultra-thin bodies and who gets to say something. It's theology, body politics, and combat sports…all in one episode! Just another day for us.

Things we mentioned in this episode:

The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul (amzn.to/4xFER23)

Please Use AI by Shawn Smucker (shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use-ai)

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (amzn.to/3Qp23kx)

Suzanne Stabile on No Small Endeavor (nosmallendeavor.com/suzanne-stabile-bestofnse)

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