As AI, digital media, and mediated relationships reshape communication, could in-person conversation become more important, not less? Chris Forbes and Matt Tullos talk with missionary, researcher, and communication specialist Steve Evans about the return of orality, the power of story, and the role of trust in human communication. They explore secondary orality, digital isolation, cross-cultural communication, worldview formation, and the growing influence of oral cultures in the Global South. The conversation asks how ministry leaders can communicate more effectively through narrative, experience, and community while remaining biblically grounded in a world increasingly shaped by screens, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.

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Chris Forbes and Matt Tullos talk to Dr. Matthew Klein from the Water Foresight Podcast about how foresight works in practice. Using water as a case study, they explore scarcity, aging infrastructure, contaminants, data-center demand, smart systems, surveillance, regulation, water rights, and resilience. They also examine how foresight can benefit the church through Christian stewardship, human dignity, religious liberty, apologetics, moral realism, and a biblical understanding of humanity. The conversation shows how ministry leaders can read emerging signals, challenge assumptions, exegete the times, and prepare faithfully for disruption.

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Signal Café hosts Chris Forbes and Matt Tullos welcome Dave Weston, an entrepreneur and political strategist, and Joel Harder, a law school graduate, former pastor, and legislative chaplain, for a discussion on how to use political signals to strengthen ministry leadership through strategic foresight. The conversation explores institutional trust, civic engagement, political idolatry, economic pressures, AI, and cultural change while introducing practical foresight concepts such as horizons, drivers, and distinguishing signals from noise. Leaders will discover how slowing down, praying, and separating signals from noise can strengthen discernment and help them lead faithfully through cultural and political change.

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