Mindset with Mike Schutt

Mindset with Mike Schutt

An interview show hosted by Worldview Academy’s Mike Schutt, exploring a wide variety of worldview topics from a biblical perspective. The modern world overflows with complexity — and conflict. It’s not easy to know what to think. You need to get your head straight: you need the right MINDSET. In every episode of MINDSET, host Mike Schutt and his guests apply the Bible’s timeless wisdom to an important contemporary debate. Whether your mind’s already made up or you’re still wresting with the questions, MINDSET will challenge the common misconceptions and bring the eternal realities to the surface.

Episodes

July 3, 2025 57 mins
In this episode of MINDSET, we ask a question that has puzzled and delighted Tolkien readers for decades: What do we do with Tom Bombadil? Clad in a bright blue coat and yellow boots, Tom dances and sings his way through the Old Forest, obviously out of place in the battle for Middle Earth. And yet, according to Chris Wiley, Bombadil is not an oddity or narrative leftover—he is a profound signpost.

Join host Mike Schutt as he and Ch...
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In this episode of Mindset, host Mike Schutt sits down with guest Nathan Pegors to explore C.S. Lewis’s great novel, Till We Have Faces. A reimagining of the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche, Lewis’s 1956 novel is a profound meditation on divine providence and revelation.

Pegors unpacks how Lewis uses this myth not just to retell an old story, but to reveal the depth of the oldest story—God’s true story. The discussion delves into t...
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March 25, 2025 60 mins
Why are stories so important to us? Why are we fervent story-making and story-consuming creatures? In this episode of Mindset, Dr. Betsy Howard, assistant professor of literature at Bethlehem College and Seminary, joins host Mike Schutt to explore these questions. Dr. Howard unpacks how stories shape us, reflect our Creator, and serve as powerful tools for understanding reality, and she explains how good stories magnify truth and m...
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January 2, 2025 51 mins
One of the basic questions of human identity is “What does Scripture teach about the relationship between the soul and the body?” This is the question at the heart of a new book by Stan Wallace, "Have We Lost Our Minds?" 

Wallace says that Christians are confused about what the soul is and about its role in human flourishing. He believes that this confusion is exacerbated lately by the writings of “neurotheologians,” who imply that ...
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December 10, 2024 64 mins
In this literary episode of Mindset, Mike Schutt and his guest, Dr. James McGlothlin, discuss Beowulf, the epic poem that has captivated readers for centuries. A philosopher and theologian, Dr. McGlothlin speaks to the worldview-rich themes of the poem and the lessons it holds even for casual readers. 

Join the conversation as Mike and James unpack the ways in which Beowulf explores the nature of good and evil, the role of providenc...
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October 15, 2024 56 mins
Lots of folks are discussing the “unchurched evangelical” these days. Yet it seems odd that a person would identify as “evangelical," yet never attend church. Perhaps church attendance is simply icing on the cake to true faith—an option that enhances our relationship with God. Or is it more than that?
 
Recently, Pastor Mark Bertrand joined Mike Schutt on a video “Worldview Conversation” to discuss the issue of church attendance, exp...
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September 4, 2024 56 mins
Sports and games are a prominent feature of our world. From family games in the living room and youth recreational leagues, to college athletics, professional sports, and the Olympics, we are surrounded by—and captivated by—sport and play. 
 
In this episode of Mindset, Mike Schutt and his guest explore the fascinating concept of sports. Why does sport captivate so many of us, and how can Christians navigate that draw? Join Mike and ...
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April 30, 2024 62 mins
Some say that Christians are “anti-science.” Sillier yet, some claim that our faith requires us to believe things that have been proven untrue or impossible. As ridiculous as these claims are, the relationship between faith and science sometimes seems more complicated than it really is. And sometimes that’s our fault.

Apologist Roy Swart, an engineer who has worked in various scientific fields his entire career, says that Christians...
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How can we chase after wisdom in today’s world? 
 
The answer may be more complicated than you think, given the built-in barriers we face today. For starters, we live in a world that prizes youth, and extended adolescence seems to be the rule for this generation. Why is that, and what how can we have a mindset that leads to change—and ultimately, to wisdom? 
 
On this episode, Mike Schutt and his guest Myron Steeves explore the complex...
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On this episode, Mike Schutt discusses the writings of Augustine with Professor Zach Howard. What can this fourth century “doctor of the church” possibly have to say to ordinary Christians today? Plenty, it turns out! From the role of imitation in Christian discipleship to discourses on proper and improper curiosity, the insights of Augustine have surprising power and relevance to contemporary believers. Listen in.







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C.S. Lewis is the greatest modern Christian apologist, having given an answer for the hope within him across myriad genres, relationships, and cultural topics. His academic work, his fiction, his essays, his poetry, and his cultural insights have moved readers for nearly 100 years.

Mike Schutt’s guests on this episode testify to the role of reading Lewis in their own lives, and they explore the teaching, learning, and discipleship...
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December 14, 2023 58 mins
Worldview Academy co-founder and Provost at Worldview at the Abbey Jeff Baldwin joins the podcast to discuss how reading good books is a key tool for taking every thought captive to obedience to Christ.

Join the conversation with Jeff and Mike as they explore why reading makes you smarter—and why they believe that reading well is a crucial Christian discipline as well as a source of delight.
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November 28, 2023 61 mins
Public discourse about “justice” over the past decade or two has been anything but coherent. Focused on politics, lacking nuance, and devoid of any philosophical foundation, our conversations have led nowhere. Happily, a new addition to the conversation has arrived in the form of Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal, by Matthew Martens, a DC attorney and former prosecutor. Martens sees the need for a deeper discourse on...
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October 26, 2023 57 mins
If monsters are monstrous, why do so many of us love them in our movies and fiction? It does seem as if most of us are drawn to monsters in some basic way. One need not love horror movies to recognize the draw of a good dragon, orc, or troll.

Surely, J.R.R. Tolkien was onto something when he suggested that monsters are central to the human story of struggle and glory. Join Mike Schutt and philosopher JAMES McGLOTHLIN as they muse on...
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September 22, 2023 44 mins
“Good literature may tell us the mind of one man,” G. K. Chesterton wrote, “but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

In this episode, Mike Schutt talks to his guest J. MARK BERTRAND about why the bad stories are often best for Christians taking the temperature of contemporary culture.







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The dilemma of suffering can be a real barrier to faith in an all-good, all-powerful God. It challenges our own faith— can we really trust a God who allows the death of parents and the suffering of children?— as well as our neighbor’s. Whether our concern is apologetics or our own struggles with doubt, it is helpful to consider suffering in the light of day, to try to come to grips with our questions and our neighbors’ objections. ...
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July 25, 2023 48 mins
Reality TV is here to stay. Once dismissed by many as a passing fad, it has became a true institution. How are Christians to think of this fascinating, insightful, and degrading phenomenon? Mike Tiland, Worldview Academy Faculty member and Director of Camps, sees Reality Television as an often-helpful window into the secular culture. He joins host Mike Schutt in this episode to try to sort out the mess.
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Despots have manipulated the masses since the dawn of time, but in the last hundred years they discovered a powerful new tool: the manipulation of language. The world prophesied by George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World has become all too real.

If you’re going to think for yourself, first you’ll need to untwist the language of our contemporary debates. In this episode, Mike Schutt talks to his guest JAY WINSLOW abo...
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May 25, 2023 52 mins
These days, many Christians’’ knowledge of Church history can be summarized: “Jesus, then Luther, then Billy Graham, and now me!”

Most of us have little familiarity with the history of Christ’s Church in the world. Considering that the Church, the Body of Christ, is the banner of truth for the world, we should seek to do better. Church history is our family history, and in order to understand who we are, we need to understand our ...
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April 27, 2023 48 mins
Since the invention of the printing press, journalists have been adept at both speaking truth and spinning propaganda. From either end of this spectrum, however, professional journalists have historically seen themselves as key players in limiting government power and safeguarding public liberty.

On this episode of Mindset, host Mike Schutt wonders if this is still true—it it ever was. His guest is David Nammo of the Christian Legal...
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