The Subtext: Talking about ’Paradise’ & Nuclear War

When the world feels like it's ending, some people buy bunkers, some people move to Argentina, some people stop reading the news entirely. How should Christians behave in the face of existential dread?

Paradise got renewed for a third season, and we're using it as an excuse to ask a question we've all been quietly avoiding: how do you cope when the threat is real? In this episode, Savannah and Lee dig into a Hulu thriller about who gets saved when civilization collapses, Annie Jacobsen's minute-by-minute account of nuclear war, a billionaire building escape routes out of the country he helped shape, and one man in Ohio who decided the only sane response was to stop paying attention entirely. What do we do with existential dread? For those of us with faith, what are we actually supposed to do with it?

Things we mentioned in this episode:

Kevin Morby

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

Paradise on Hulu

The Truman Show

Allison Russell on No Small Endeavor

Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

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