Axis Conversations

Jen Pollock Michel, award-winning author and mentor focused on Christian spiritual practices. She explores how ancient Benedictine and desert traditions shaped a modern rule of life. Short, practical steps for crafting rhythms. Stories about family limits, teen formation, and finding freedom by subtracting good things.

A lively roundtable on a nostalgic sequel and why it feels familiar. Heated takes on the Met Gala as spectacle, sponsorship, and viral moments. A frank look at Mother's Day overload, busyness, and how families cope. Quick pop-culture bites about viral sports stunts, odd movie adaptations, and trending merch resales.

They debate whether a legacy movie sequel lives up to nostalgia. The Met Gala sparks arguments about art, fashion, and Gen Z reactions. Moms are organizing to opt out of overbooked school rituals and reclaim hidden labor. Quick culture bites include viral sports theater, a cheeky Animal Farm retelling, and pop culture merchandising crazes.

A frank conversation about parenting in the age of smartphones and social media. They weigh modern tech’s conveniences against worries about screens and attention. The group compares past generations’ freedoms with today’s monitoring and safety trade offs. Practical tactics for presence, boundaries, community, and low tech tools come up amid candid, often funny parenting moments.

Teen routines at Starbucks become social signaling and belonging rituals. A surprising number of young people describe intuition as nearly psychic. Many young adults say they would choose to live in an earlier decade, driven by nostalgia and anxiety about the future.

Tweens treating Starbucks as a social hangout and colorful drinks as status. A surprising share of Gen Z describe their intuition as almost psychic. Many young adults say they would choose to live in an earlier decade instead of today. Brief prompts are offered to spark conversations between parents and teens about generations and social media.

Freya India, author and journalist behind Substack GIRLS, explores modern girlhood. She discusses filtered self-presentation and editing apps, influencers and algorithmic nudges toward surgery. She talks about constant measurement online, documentation versus presence, porn culture’s distortions, and how therapeutic longings shape young women today.

A lively roundtable explores why birdwatching has become a soothing hobby for young people. They unpack teen posting habits and how Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram serve different social needs. The conversation shifts to learning to slow down, embracing sabbath rhythms, and reclaiming attention in a hurried culture.

Teens are into birdwatching and using apps that turn nature into social content. Young people mostly lurk on big platforms but still post on Snapchat. A writer links phone habits to slowing down and recommends resisting cultural hurry. Quick culture hits include accelerated degrees, a quirky Nintendo social game, Coachella moments, 90s flip-flop revival, and chatter about the band Geese.

A brief pause as the team gathers with their community to pray and plan for the year ahead. They explain the reason for the short break and share when regular programming will return. Listeners are thanked and invited to support, connect, and follow their channels until the schedule resumes next week.