Good Culture With Sho Baraka
This show blends interviews, commentary, storytelling, and documentary journalism. Good Culture is a collective of artists, academics, and advocates reflecting on faith, culture, and contemporary news. Sho Baraka and friends aim to inspire action, investigate truth, provide insight, but ultimately, they hope to create a meaningful product shaped by the Good News of Jesus.
Episodes
What happens in the brain and body when people pray? And what can that tell us about how we show up for the causes we care about? In this interview, I sit down with Dr. Josh Brahinsky, researcher behind The Prayer Study, and filmmaker Art Hooker, to explore the intersection of neuroscience, prayer, and activism. We talk about what contemplative and prayer practices reveal about surrender, connection, and creativity, and how those i...
The crew talks about Nikole Hannah-Jones' NYT piece on segregated schools, the Nolan Wells District Attorney statement and the controversy around Macklemore, Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft.
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A week full of travel has The Collective debating their preferred airlines, with Sho and Darryl sharing why they are willing to pay for convenience and peace of mind. After a few obligatory Spirit Airlines jokes (not too much!), the conversation turned to awards season. Up first, the recent controversy at the BAFTA Awards, where “SINNERS” actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were caught up in an “impossible&r...
How we represent our cultural group, our country, and our faith matters. The Collective is back again to discuss Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance that divided parts of Christendom, and give us a pathway for how we should we respond when our own “group” is not represented in cultural celebrations. Turning to the Winter Olympics and NBA All-Star weekend, we discuss why “USA v. The World” ignites a litt...
The Collective’s eyes are still watching Minneapolis. Sho, Darryl, Ian, and Tryce open this episode with a discussion of rage and anger. They encourage us to filter out corrosive emotions that lead to sin, but make a case that Christians can express a righteous indignation in response to injustice. This leads to a discussion of the Cities Church protest. The Collective debates whether churches should be exempt as sites of pro...
“How are we feeling in the aftermath of Renee Good’s killing? Sho, Anastacia, Darryl, Ian, and Tryce share their reactions to the tragedy, discussing the role of narrative, power, desensitization, and policing. The Collective also discusses the philosophy of nonviolent direct action, and draw on the philosophy to analyze various protest tactics we’ve seen employed. Finally, the cast ends with a discussion of the C...
Sho Baraka is joined by Professor and lawyer, Timothy Welbeck to breakdown each song and the themes of the the album.
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Sho, Anastacia, Ian, Tryce, & Darrell discuss Christmas traditions, Sho shares a new segment called “The Last Shall Be First and the First Shall Be Last,” and then we close the show out with a Christmas Culture Draft. Let us know in the comments who you think drafted the best!
Ansatacia Movie - The Family Stone Song - What do the Lonely Do at Christmas - The Emotions Food - Royal Dansk Butter Cookies Tradition - Chr...
Year End Review Episode
Sho, Anastacia, Ian, Tryce, & Darryl review the good culture (and the bad culture) of 2025. The collective also share their top music, films and books of the year. However before we close the year out we need to discover some new Christian Hip Hop with Ronaldo from Medial Point.
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Sho, Anastacia and Ian have a generous discussion with the author of the Anti-Greed Gospel, Malcolm Foley. The pastor and academic talks about how much of our faith is entangled with capitalism and Neo-liberal politics.
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Sho, Tryce and Anastacia are joined by Morgan Lee to learn about Israel and Palestine from Palestinian professor and Christian, Tony Deik. The Collective learns about the history of the conflict and how narratives have been shaped to influence Christian in America.
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Sho Baraka shares laughs and ideas with Jude 3 Project's Lisa Fields. They talk about the growing business behind apologetics content, fallen heroes, writing books and more.
Lisa’s Book: When Faith Disappoints
Nytimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/black-men.html
A Little Exercise For Young Theologians: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Exercise-Young-Theologians/dp/0802874150
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Sho Baraka, Anastacia Johnson, Tryce Prince and Ian O'Brien sit down to discuss the social-political and style distinctions within Worship music and gospel. The Collective discusses the much talked about interview between Ezra Klein and Ta-nehisi Coates. Lastly they evaluate they're own definition of success based on a poll by NBC surveying thousands of Gen Zer's.
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Sho Baraka is joined by Tryce Prince and Ian O'Brien as they discuss why they've started a podcast. What will Good Culture be and how each individual plans to contribute according to their area of expertise. They also talk about the ways in which they feel Christians can better engage art.
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Sho Baraka explains the impetus for the revised podcast and what you can expect moving forward. He talks about his personal formation growing up and how the gospel helped to reform those aspects of his life without destroying his identity altogether.
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