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We begin with a really hot-potato topic, one that blew up the Evangelical Christian community a few weeks ago!

Recovering Evangelicals are back from hiatus!

When we took a break from podcasting last summer, we wondered if there even would be a 7th season … and if we did return, whether we needed to re-brand. Well, we’re back … and we’re keeping the name. Although we may have to give up on one of the interpretations of the name … at least until the impending collapse of the American empire!?

And we’re starting the season off with a bang. Next week, we’ll release a real bomb-shell episode! The outcome of the recent news in the Evangelical world about Philip Yancey: his recent public confession to having been involved in an extramarital affair for the past eight years. This, coming from one of the best-selling (17 million books, translated into over 40 languages) Evangelical authors, with numerous awards to his credit and a massive fan-base of people who have found his books to have been hugely influential on their Christian faith and practice! Scott and I reminisced about our interview with Philip two years ago, which we now realize occurred while this reputation-busting relationship had been going on: he even talked about other hugely influential Christian speakers/authors leading a secret life and betraying the public trust!? It’s very unsettling to feel how these and other things he said now take on entirely new meanings!?

For the first two week’s after Philip’s announcement, I had no intention of piling on to the on-line outrage that was unleashed. And for the same reasons that I always resisted doing a follow-up episode regarding Bruxy Cavey, whom we also had on as a guest four years ago, coincidentally also two years before it came to light that he had been in an extramarital affair. But it was one particular element that kept coming up in the public outrage over both scandals, and every othe