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When Your Interpretation Becomes the Authority | The Diagnosis
Season 4 Episode 70
James Spencer and Ashish Varma continue the series on what narrows the church's vision with a look at inversion — what happens when an interpretive g…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
AI With Guardrails: Scott Lindsey on Logos and the Future of Bible Study
Season 4 Episode 70
More than half of American Christians now say they trust AI with their spiritual life. That is a problem worth taking seriously, and it is also the r…
2 months ago
Why Do Christian Institutions Compromise to Stay Alive?
Season 4 Episode 69
Institutions confuse their own survival with the work of God. Dr. James Spencer and Dr. Ashish Varma close the diagnostic arc of this series with tra…
2 months ago
The Fear of Syncretism Is Making the Church Assimilate
Season 4 Episode 67
The fear of losing the faith to another culture is producing the very thing it fears. Dr. James Spencer and Dr. Ashish Varma open a series on three f…
2 months, 1 week ago
Grandparent Texts: How the New Testament Reads the Old (Gary Edward Schnittjer)
Season 4 Episode 65
The usual complaint about the New Testament's use of the Old is that the apostles play fast and loose. Dr. Gary Edward Schnittjer thinks the problem …
2 months, 1 week ago
Not All Moabites Are Moabites (Gary Edward Schnittjer)
Season 4 Episode 64
Most readers hear "Old Testament use of the Old Testament" and picture quotations. Dr. Gary Edward Schnittjer says quotation is the small end of it. …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Ezra-Nehemiah Ends Badly (Gary Edward Schnittjer)
Season 4 Episode 63
Ezra-Nehemiah opens on a high note. Yahweh keeps the word he spoke through Jeremiah, Cyrus issues the edict, and the exiles go home. By the last chap…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Deaths of Despair and the Decline of American Religion (Tamar Oostrom)
Season 4 Episode 66
What does repealing Sunday shopping laws have to do with rising rates of suicide, alcohol deaths, and drug overdoses? More than you might expect. In …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Study the Old Testament? (Gary Edward Schnittjer)
Season 4 Episode 62
Christians have inherited a strange habit of treating the Old Testament as optional. Dr. Gary Edward Schnittjer argues that Jesus and the apostles wo…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Decolonial Theology and the Holy Spirit: Is God Moving Outside Our Gates? (Oscar Garcia-Johnson)
Season 4 Episode 61
Can the church learn to follow the Spirit into places it hasn't been looking? In this episode of Thinking Christian, Dr. James Spencer and Dr. Ashish…
2 months, 3 weeks ago