Podcast Episodes

Q&A with Marty

For those of who are new to The Payneful Truth, every month or so I have a Q&A style conversation with a friend. It’s usually one of the partner-only…

4 years, 11 months ago

What love really is

What is love, when all is said and done?

We finished the first part our exploration of this surprisingly tricky question with more questions than ans…

4 years, 11 months ago

The two loves

The French call it l’esprit d’escalier—which means something like ‘the wit of the staircase’. It’s that clever thing you wished you’d said but only t…

4 years, 11 months ago

I believe in alien life

As flagged last week, the Bible often sees the Christian life as a matter of “faith, love and hope”. “These three”, as Paul describes them 1 Corinthi…

5 years ago

These three

Amidst the disorienting sadness of the last week following my mother’s death, gratitude keeps breaking through—not only for her life and faith, but f…

5 years ago

The lordless power of Sport

While keeping an eye on the women’s K1 slalom (“Jess is making a real statement here!”) and occasionally flicking across to see if the tall, lumpy de…

5 years, 1 month ago

Take heed

This is one of the free public Payneful Truth posts that I put out once a month. If you’d like to get every edition, every week, see the info at the …

5 years, 1 month ago

Seven types of 'apologetics': Part 2

In last week’s edition we began looking at seven types of ‘apologetics’ that are scattered across the spectrum of our interactions with the non-Chris…

5 years, 1 month ago

Seven types of 'apologetics'

I did some training with the CBS staff recently on ‘apologetics’, and how it relates to ‘evangelism’. And as I did so, I realised that one of our pro…

5 years, 1 month ago

How to grow left-lookers

A special welcome to the new partners who have signed up in the last week or two. Great to have you as part of the conversation.

I suggested in last w…

5 years, 2 months ago