This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Joshua Chestnut entitled, Cultivating a Hopeful Imagination in a Pornified Culture.

In this workshop we will consider some of the fragmenting and dehumanizing consequences of pornography with the help of recent neurological and sociological research on the unseen costs of habitually viewing porn. We will then explore the importance of developing the virtues of patience, imagination and hope for ourselves and friends who are struggling to stay human in our pornified culture.

Joshua originally hails from Brooklyn, New York but has lived in the Deep South as well as on the West Coast.  He received his Master of Arts in Theology from Regent College in beautiful Vancouver, BC where he also met and married his wife Sarah. 

Prior to being at L’Abri, Joshua was employed as a house painter, a mental health worker and a pool-cleaner (but not all at the same time). Joshua’s teaching interests usually revolve around the Bible as well as the intersection of Christian faith with post-Christian culture. 

If he can’t be found doing a project around the house or with his nose in some book, he’s most likely either playing with his two young kids or attempting to fly fish. 

Joshua and his wife Sarah are workers at the Southborough branch of L'Abri.

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