DEI isn't going away—but it is evolving.

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I explain how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is no longer functioning mainly as a public corporate slogan or HR mandate. Instead, it's becoming something far more subtle: a professionalized operating logic embedded into law, institutions and workplace risk management.

The shift is clear. Bias is no longer treated as something proven through actions, but as something ambient and assumed. Harm is no longer tied to illegality, but to perception. And intent is no longer a defense.

This new framework quietly relocates authority away from due process and objective truth and toward subjective experience, inferred motive and perceived offense.

What happens when following the law becomes necessary but no longer sufficient?

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Have I noticed areas where perception has replaced proof in my workplace or culture?
  
  
  
• Am I willing to stand for truth even when the rules become unclear and shifting?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, I unpack:

✅ The evolution of DEI from explicit mandates to subtle institutional logic

✅ Why "ambient bias" is replacing provable wrongdoing

✅ How harm is being decoupled from illegality

✅ Why intent is being sidelined in favor of impact

✅ The seven-step framework redefining professional risk

✅ How due process erodes when perception becomes the trigger

✅ The chilling effect this creates on speech and conscience

✅ Why vague standards expand power through ambiguity

✅ The rise of "process as punishment" in modern institutions

✅ A Christian framework for justice rooted in objective truth

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧠 Recognize that cultural frameworks often shift before laws do

📖 Anchor your conscience in truth, not fear

⚖ Defend due process, fairness, and equal standards

🗣 Stand firm with clarity without becoming belligerent

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Artificial intelligence isn't just another tool—it's the biggest technological revolution since the printing press. And it's happening faster than most all of us realize.

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I sit down with an AI specialist, Joshua Hale, to unpack the real risks and opportunities of the AI revolution. This conversation isn't about sci-fi hype—it's about personal sovereignty, truth, psychological dependency and whether humans will master these tools or quietly surrender authority to them.

We talk honestly about the dangers of "false empathy," why AI is becoming a digital "yes-man," how centralized systems are creating invisible cages and why a small group of people who understand digital hygiene may soon live in a completely different reality than everyone else.

This episode is a wake-up call for anyone who thinks AI is neutral—or harmless.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Am I using technology as a tool—or am I slowly letting it shape my thinking and identity?
  
  
  
• If AI disappeared tomorrow, would my sense of truth, wisdom and community still be intact?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, we unpack:

✅ Why AI is more psychologically dangerous than social media

✅ The "false empathy" trap humans aren't wired to detect

✅ How AI becomes a digital yes-man—and why that matters

✅ The emerging split between "freedom builders" and passive users

✅ Why centralized AI systems threaten personal sovereignty

✅ The rise of AI cults and synthetic spiritual authority

✅ How hallucinations and bias undermine truth and morality

✅ Practical ways to use AI without becoming dependent on it

✅ Why local, closed-system AI is the future of freedom

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🧠 Learn digital hygiene before habits are formed for you

🛡 Protect your thinking, privacy, and moral framework

🤝 Strengthen real-world relationships and community

📖 Anchor truth in something deeper than algorithms

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What happens when political activism crosses into the sanctuary?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I examine the disruptive protest at a Minneapolis church where activists stormed a worship service to target an associate pastor connected to ICE. What followed wasn't just a political controversy—it raised serious legal, constitutional, and theological questions that Christians can no longer ignore.

I walk through where free speech actually ends, why churches are not public forums, and how disrupting worship crosses a line both legally and biblically. More importantly, I explore how Christians should respond when hostility toward the faith moves from disagreement into intimidation and disruption.

This episode isn't about fear-mongering. It's about discernment. Scripture is clear that persecution doesn't always begin with prisons—it often starts with public shaming, false accusations, and interference with worship.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

· Am I prepared to respond to hostility with conviction and gentleness?

· Do I recognize the difference between bold faith and belligerent behavior—even when I agree with the cause?

📌 In this episode, I unpack:

✅ Why churches are private property—not public protest zones

✅ Where the First Amendment actually draws the line on free speech

✅ How Scripture defines persecution—and why this incident fits the pattern

✅ The difference between Christian boldness and political belligerence

✅ Why "Jesus flipping tables" is often misused to justify chaos

✅ How believers are called to respond without surrendering truth

✅ Practical steps churches should take to protect worship without escalating conflict

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🙏 Pray for churches facing increasing public hostility

📖 Strengthen your theological understanding of persecution and faithfulness

🛡 Encourage your church leaders to prepare wisely—not fearfully

🗣 Speak truth with courage, clarity, and restraint

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Is civil disobedience a Christian duty or a dangerous misreading of faith?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I continue my discussion with activist and author Shane Claiborne in a thoughtful and at-times tense conversation about Christian civil disobedience, theology and public policy.

Both of us agree on a foundational truth: a Christian's ultimate allegiance is to Jesus Christ—not the state. But from there, the conversation reveals deep and meaningful disagreements about how that allegiance should be lived out in real-world policy decisions involving guns, immigration, welfare, justice and government authority.

Claiborne argues that love for "the least of these" must be the guiding metric for Christian action, even when it leads to nonviolent resistance against unjust laws. I counter that love must be grounded in obedience to God's commands and propose a clear biblical framework for when civil disobedience is truly required.

This episode does not offer easy answers—but it models civil discourse, biblical reasoning and the hard work of thinking clearly in a polarized age.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Do I define love primarily by compassion or by obedience to God's truth?
  
  
  
• Where might sincerity be replacing biblical discernment in my convictions?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, we explore:

✅ When civil disobedience becomes a Christian obligation

✅ Competing biblical frameworks for love, justice and obedience

✅ Matthew 25 vs. Romans 13—how should Christians interpret both?

✅ The dangers of Christian nationalism and state idolatry

✅ Whether compassion alone is a sufficient guide for public policy

✅ Guns, immigration, welfare and the role of government vs. the church

✅ Loving political opponents without excusing error or injustice

✅ Why fear and comfort often silence faithful obedience

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🙏 Ask whether your convictions are shaped more by Scripture or culture

🧠 Examine political beliefs through a biblical—not partisan—lens

🗣 Speak truth with humility, clarity and courage

❤️ Refuse to replace Christ with any cause, party or ideology

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What happens when following Jesus puts you in direct conflict with the laws of the state?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I speak with activist and author Shane Claiborne to explore one of the most uncomfortable—and misunderstood—questions facing Christians today: When does obedience to God require disobedience to government?

From feeding the homeless in defiance of city ordinances, to protesting war and unjust policies, to confronting Christian nationalism head-on, this conversation challenges easy political categories and forces believers to wrestle with allegiance, authority, and love in public life.

Claiborne reframes "civil disobedience" as divine obedience, arguing that faithfulness to Jesus sometimes demands nonviolent resistance to unjust laws—and that the church's role is not to serve the state or rule it, but to act as its conscience.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• Where does my primary allegiance actually lie—Christ or comfort?
  
  
  
• Have I confused unity with peace, or silence with faithfulness?
  
  
  

📌 In this episode, we discuss:

✅ What "divine obedience" really means for Christians

✅ Biblical examples of faithful resistance (Daniel, the prophets, the early church)

✅ Why love—not rebellion—is the motive behind Christian civil disobedience

✅ The difference between the church as the conscience of the state vs. its servant

✅ Why Shane Claiborne rejects Christian nationalism

✅ How nonviolent action exposes injustice without abandoning conviction

✅ Whether justice can become an idol—and how to guard against it

✅ Why caring for the vulnerable is not a political issue but a gospel mandate

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🙏 Examine where fear or comfort may be silencing obedience

🧠 Test your political assumptions against Scripture—not party loyalty

🗣 Engage injustice with courage, humility, and love

❤️ Remember: justice is what love looks like in public

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What happens when the United States conducts a high-risk special operations mission to capture a sitting head of state?

In this episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I speak with a military legal expert to break down the reported U.S. operation targeting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—examining the legal justifications, military strategy and global implications behind one of the most extraordinary actions in modern Western Hemisphere politics.

This is not just a story about drugs or Venezuela. It's about sovereignty, self-defense, foreign adversaries operating in America's backyard, and a dramatic shift in U.S. posture toward cartel states and hostile regimes.

From UN Charter law and historical precedents like Noriega and Eichmann, to oil money funding terror groups, to what this signals for Mexico, Colombia, Iran, Russia and China—this episode connects the dots the headlines won't.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

· When does law enforcement become national self-defense?

· What happens when sovereignty is used as cover for global harm?

📌 In this episode, we unpack:

✅ Why the operation is framed as a capture mission, not a kill mission

✅ The 2020 U.S. narco-terrorism indictment against Maduro

✅ How Article 51 of the UN Charter is being used to justify action

✅ The connection between Venezuelan oil money, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas

✅ Why this signals a revived Monroe Doctrine / "Trump Doctrine"

✅ What this means for Mexico, Colombia and cartel-controlled states

✅ Lessons learned from Iraq, Panama and past regime removals

✅ Why targeting kingpins rarely stops drugs—but still matters geopolitically

✅ The risks of power vacuums, insurgency and regional instability

📢 TAKE ACTION:

📖 Learn how international law actually works—not how it's portrayed

🧠 Think critically about sovereignty, security and moral responsibility

🙏 Pray for peace, restraint and wisdom among global leaders

🗣 Talk about hard truths without partisan blinders

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Is the shift from saying, "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays" really harmless—or is it a warning sign of something much bigger?

In this special episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, I break down why the so-called "War on Christmas" isn't about outrage or nostalgia, but about how cultures change—slowly, subtly and often without resistance.

Using history, data and real institutional examples, I share how small language shifts are often the first step in much larger cultural transformations. What begins as "inclusivity" or "neutrality" can quietly become exclusion of Christian worldview from public life altogether.

This episode isn't about being angry—it's about being aware.

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💭 A different way to reflect this week:

· When cultural change feels "small," how do we discern whether it's actually significant?

· What responsibility do believers have when truth is softened in the name of comfort?

📌 In this episode, we unpack:

✅ Why Christmas—unlike other Christian holidays—is uniquely targeted

✅ The real reason "Happy Holidays" only appears in December

✅ Institutional examples where "Merry Christmas" was discouraged

✅ Why the "Jesus wasn't born on December 25th" argument misses the point

✅ A 5-step pattern every major cultural revolution follows

✅ How language shapes morality before laws ever change

✅ Why persuasion always comes before persecution

✅ What history teaches us about ignoring "small" cultural shifts

📢 TAKE ACTION:

🎄 Speak truth without fear or hostility

📖 Understand how language shapes worldview

🕯 Be alert to cultural drift—not reactionary, but intentional

🙏 Celebrate Christmas boldly, with clarity and conviction

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What happens when faith collides with geopolitics, trauma, abortion policy, philosophy, and the hard questions Christians often avoid?

In this Best of 2025 episode of Uncommon Sense in Current Times, Peter Demos brings together some of the most compelling conversations of the year—spanning theology, international affairs, trauma recovery, pro-life advocacy, and civil dialogue with ideological opponents.

From redefining what Christians mean by faith, to confronting Iran's regime, to exposing new abortion tactics, to debating morality with an atheist philosopher—this episode is a snapshot of why uncommon sense matters now more than ever.

Each segment challenges cultural assumptions and calls believers back to grounded, courageous, biblically rooted thinking in an age of confusion.

💭 A different way to reflect this week:

• What beliefs do I hold because they're true—and which ones do I hold because they're comfortable?
  
  
  
• Am I willing to examine my own biases as honestly as I examine others'?
  
  
  

📌 Featured conversations include:

✅ Greg Koukl on redefining "faith" as justified trust grounded in reality

✅ Robert Jeffress on why the Second Coming is often neglected—and why it matters

✅ Lana Silk on the underground Christian movement in Iran

✅ Evan Owens on dignity, community, and real trauma recovery

✅ Dr. Ingram Scott on abortion pills, abuse, and post-Roe realities

✅ Steven Law (atheist philosopher) on humanism, bias, belief, and secular morality

✅ Why civil discourse still matters in a polarized world

✅ How Christians can think clearly without surrendering conviction

📢 TAKE ACTION:

📖 Re-examine what you believe—and why

🧠 Practice intellectual humility alongside biblical confidence

🙏 Pray for persecuted believers around the world

🗣 Engage culture with truth, courage, and clarity—not fear

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