Culture is the mission field; own your worldview

A host's daughter is studying with a friend who has zero Christian background — he never imagined America would feel like the mission field. A story about a 1930s New York Times Moscow correspondent who controlled America's narrative about Stalin-era Russia (millions of Ukrainians died; his Pulitzer-winning reporting said otherwise) becomes the frame: a voice or two can shape what people believe with no competing narrative, and most people believe what they heard last. Christians confirm the bad narrative with angry social media posts. The fix is owned belief: don't borrow faith from people around you like a handout; wrestle with God until it becomes yours. A tangent on the rapture — fought tooth and nail though scripture doesn't mention it — proves the point.