Modern civilization isn't collapsing because of a single event.
It's collapsing because of ideas.

In this full-length episode of The Jake Giffin Podcast, host Jake Giffin sits down with Christian apologist and author Anil Kanda to examine the philosophical, psychological, and moral ideas quietly reshaping the modern world—and why so many of them are failing in real time.

This conversation is not a sermon and not a political rant. It's a deep, honest examination of worldview. We explore how concepts like moral relativism, Darwinian naturalism, secular humanism, and identity-as-accident have moved from academic theory into everyday life—and what happens when societies try to live as if those ideas are actually true.

For Christians, this episode offers language and clarity for things you already sense but may struggle to articulate:
Why faith is not blind.
Why morality needs an anchor.
Why identity collapses when God is removed.

For atheists and skeptics, this episode asks hard questions without caricature:
If morality is subjective, why are some things universally condemned?
If humans are accidental products of biology, where does dignity come from?
If truth is relative, why argue so passionately for justice?

Anil Kanda draws from Scripture, philosophy, psychology, and history—moving from the Book of Daniel and Genesis to modern cultural dysfunction—to show how worldviews shape behavior, institutions, and civilizations. Jake presses the implications further, connecting these ideas to modern identity crises, the breakdown of meaning, and why outrage has replaced wisdom.

This episode does not ask you to "believe harder."
It asks you to think more honestly about the ideas you live by.

Whether you are a committed Christian, a questioning skeptic, or someone who simply feels that something is deeply wrong with the world but can't quite name it, this conversation will challenge you to examine the foundations beneath your beliefs.

• The ideas shaping modern civilization

• Moral relativism vs objective truth

• Atheism, Darwinism, and moral consistency

• Why identity collapses without transcendence

• The Image of God and human dignity

• Why societies drift toward chaos without moral anchors

• Apologetics, love, and intellectual honesty

• Faith, reason, and the search for meaning

• Website: https://www.anilkanda.org

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AnilKanda

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anilkanda

Anil Kanda is an author, speaker, and Christian apologist known for addressing doubt, worldview conflict, and the intellectual foundations of faith. He is the author of Rethinking God and host of Hope@Night.

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Jake Giffin is a coach, entrepreneur, and podcast host focused on biblical psychology, identity, leadership, and confronting cultural lies with clarity and conviction.

What do you do when your life collapses in slow motion?
When your career, your health, and even your spouse are taken from you… and God doesn't intervene?

In this brutally honest episode, Laura Silverman walks us through a journey most people would never survive. A Stanford Law graduate and federal prosecutor, Laura was on the fast track—driven, brilliant, purpose-filled. Then, at 30 years old, a rare and still-undiagnosed neurological disorder struck without warning.

The world began to spin.
Her body shut down.
Her independence vanished.
And for three years, she was fully bedridden.

Doctors threw out guesses but no answers.
Treatments made her worse.
Opinions shifted from "rare disease" to "maybe it's psychological," adding insult to devastation.

But the suffering didn't stop there.

In the middle of her illness, Laura met and married Matt, a man fighting his own battle with terminal intestinal cancer. Their love story is unreal—two people in the fire learning how to suffer together. Matt lived three years longer than doctors predicted, and his faith in the face of death shaped Laura in ways she's still uncovering.

This episode is not a sentimental Christian story.
It is a theological gut punch.

Laura speaks openly about:

• Losing her legal career at the height of success
• Fighting bitterness, anger, and spiritual confusion
• Wrestling with God on a bedpan while the world spun around her
• Watching her husband slowly die with joy on his face
• Learning that God sometimes says "no"
• The difference between prosperity thinking and biblical reality
• Why suffering deepens theology in ways books never can
• How her memoir, Singing Through Fire, became the redemption of her story
• What it means to trust God when He gives you the opposite of what you prayed for

This is the theology of pain—not the sanitized version, but the one forged in hospital rooms, sleepless nights, vertigo, grief, and unanswered prayers. If you've suffered, are suffering, or love someone who is, Laura's wisdom will feel like someone finally telling the truth.

Suffering didn't destroy her faith.
It refined it.
And it will refine yours too.

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