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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, 4 weeks ago
What Did Western Modernity Make Us Forget About God? (Kevin Flatt)
Season 4 Episode 60
Is modern life quietly replacing God with something else? In Episode 60 of Thinking Christian, Dr. James Spencer and Dr. Ashish Varma welcome back hi…
3 months ago
Is "Secular" Really Neutral? Secularism and the Christian West (Kevin Flatt)
Season 4 Episode 59
What if secularization isn't the decline of religion — but the replacement of one social order with another? In this episode, Dr. James Spencer and D…
3 months ago
Can a nation be "Christian" without Christ?
Season 4 Episode 58
Is "Cultural Christianity" a bridge to the gospel — or a counterfeit that replaces it? In this episode, Dr. James Spencer (PhD, Trinity Evangelical D…
3 months, 1 week ago
What does it actually mean to be human? (Marc Cortez)
Season 4 Episode 57
What does it mean to be human — really? In an age of AI, transhumanism, and relentless technological "progress," Christians are making confident clai…
3 months, 1 week ago
Systems, Virtue & the Body of Christ
Season 4 Episode 56
What if the church is trapped in the same invisible loop as an addict — and doesn't know it?
What does addiction science have to do with the body of …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Family Systems and the Church: Is the Problem a Person or a System? (David J. Van Dyke)
Season 4 Episode 55
Most people think of mental health as an individual problem. Dr. David J. Van Dyke — professor, marriage and family therapist, and co-host of the Wit…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Christian Parenting Beyond the Checklist: What Scripture Offers Instead
Season 4 Episode 54
Is Christian parenting a strict formula to execute, or an art form to practice?
In a culture that bombards Christian parents with exhaustive 10-step …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Women in Ministry: History, Stakes, and What Comes Next (Beth Allison Barr)
Season 4 Episode 52
The Southern Baptist Convention just passed a constitutional amendment restricting women in ministry — and the implications reach far beyond the SBC.…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Discipleship, Not Dominance: Rethinking Biblical Masculinity (Kutter Callaway)
Season 4 Episode 52
What does it actually mean to be a male disciple of Jesus? And why does so much of what gets called "biblical masculinity" look more like cultural br…
4 months ago