Millions of women were promised that liberation would bring fulfillment, so why are so many of them exhausted, angry, and searching for something more? In this first episode of a three-part series, host Jared Luttjeboer sits down with Dr. Andrew Compton, professor of Old Testament at Mid-America Reformed Seminary, to trace the arc of feminist ideology from the Industrial Revolution through today's intersectional moment, and to ask a question the culture rarely entertains: what if feminism itself is the source of women's disappointment? This isn't a conversation about women's ordination or culture-war point-scoring, but a pastoral and historical reckoning with what women have been told will make them happy, and why it hasn't.

Every generation believes its political moment is the worst in history, and every generation is partly right. But what if the real crisis isn't the news cycle, but our inability to outlast it? For its 300th episode, MarsCast closes out its series on political exhaustion and the church with a fittingly long-view conversation: Dr. Alan Strange, president of Mid-America Reformed Seminary, draws on decades of lived history, from the cultural upheaval of the '60s to the gender revolution of today, to offer something rarer than political analysis: perspective. He and host Jared Luttjeboer explore how ordinary Christians can cultivate a "steady as she goes" rhythm of faithfulness that spans decades rather than despair-fueled news cycles. The answer, it turns out, is older and quieter than anything trending online.

In this third episode of our series on political exhaustion and the church, host Jared Luttjeboer presses Dr. Alan Strange on the most practical question yet: how should the local church shape how their people think about politics during ordinary times so they're not starting from scratch every election season, already entrenched and already tired? Dr. Strange argues that proactive discipleship means resisting two temptations at once: the urge to baptize a political platform as the Christian position, and the impulse to fight the culture war on the world's own terms. The church that waits for election season to address politics will always be playing catch-up. Tune in to hear what faithful, formative engagement actually looks like, and why the algorithm will never give your congregation what the church alone can.