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Episode 194: Easter Jedi and Christian Clichés
It's a very Jedi Easter in Wisconsin. Charging money for prayers can get you in trouble, plus popular Christian cliches we find all over the church b…
10 years, 2 months ago
Episode 193: Does Trump Show Us What We Really Love?
How can a boat demonstrate the limits of democracy? Disney films promote the message that poverty is "just fine." Plus does Trumpalooza reveal the re…
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 192: David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons
New research by the Barna Group shows that Americans in increasing numbers view Christianity as unbeneficial and even dangerous to society. Barna pre…
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 191: Did Christians Create Trump?
Did Christians make Trump? Is the religious right dead? Is the evangelical church splitting in two? A bizarre electoral season has the media - and ev…
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 190: Interpreting the OT and NRB
Interpreting the Old Testament is easy, right? We just read our English translations, knowing that they say exactly what the original Hebrew said. Ri…
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 189: America's Best Days - Poverty By County
Are America’s “best days” behind us? What makes some areas better at improving the lives of poor kids than others? Plus - capital punishment and the …
10 years, 4 months ago
Episode 188: God and Genocide
Is God a genocidal maniac?? OT scholar Dr. John Walton is back on the show, this time to decipher the OT’s stories of Israel’s apparent genocidal ram…
10 years, 4 months ago
Episode 187: Superbowl, Ads, and Lent!
How many Christians pray for the Super Bowl? Which Super Bowl ad offended abortion rights advocates? Plus - what do Americans like to give up for Len…
10 years, 4 months ago
Episode 186: Politicians, Religious Freedom, Christianism
Politicians talk about faith, pharmacists and Noah’s Ark builders fight for religious freedom, and Skye explains how “Christianism” could kill the ev…
10 years, 4 months ago
Episode 185: Beards, Chess, Aliens, and Trump
Why are British pastors growing beards? Why can’t Muslims play chess? Why are all the space aliens dead? Why are there seven buckets of evangelicals?…
10 years, 4 months ago