When TGC releases a podcast, we post a transcript along with a disclaimer: “The following is an uncorrected transcript generated by a transcription service. Before quoting in print, please check the corresponding audio for accuracy.” While it’s true that our transcripts are uncorrected and thus susceptible to homophonic blunders, an error will occasionally jump out at me that I’m compelled to fix. For example, in our recent episode “Porch Culture in a Post-Christian World,” I wondered why James Eglinton was going on and on about religious nuns.

Except, of course, he wasn’t. He was talking about religious “nones,” those who identify with no religion and who, if they live in a post-Christian context, may have no language or framework for understanding Christianity. Unlike someone who grew up in the Bible Belt or was taken to church every Sunday, they don’t have the context clues to decipher Christian vocabulary. For them, walking into a church service may feel a bit like reading a machine-generated transcript. They hear the words, but the words don’t mesh into something that makes sense.

Eglinton has compassion for the nones, and we should too. We should heed his advice to make porches (figuratively and sometimes literally) central to our evangelistic efforts. I hope you’ll take time to listen to his message, and that you’ll have ears to hear.