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Episode 89: Pete and Jared - David’s Sordid Past: This Ain’t No Kids Story
Season 3
In this episode of The Bible for Normal People Podcast, Pete and Jared take a close look at the call of David and the battle with Goliath (1 Samuel 1…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 88: Rachel Held Evans - Reading The Bible Creatively
Season 3
This week’s episode with Rachel Held Evans is among her last podcast interviews, recorded 2 months before her untimely passing on May 4. We offer thi…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 87: Robert Alter - The Art of Translating the Bible
Season 3
Robert Alter has spent most of his life committed to studying the Bible and the last two decades creating an entirely new translation of the Old Test…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 86: Pete Enns - Pete Ruins Exodus (Part 2)
Season 3
Pete continues his series in Exodus chapters 3 and 4. God reveals his plan to use Moses to deliver the Israelites from Egypt and Moses does everythin…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 85: Austen Hartke - The Bible & The Lives of Transgender Christians
Season 3
Austen Hartke shares his journey of being a transgender Christian and discusses how the Bible might speak to the inclusion of all people into the peo…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 84: Jared Byas - Paul is Frustrating: On Fornication & Wives Obeying Husbands in Colossians
Season 3
Why does Paul say there are no longer slaves but then turns around and tells slaves to obey their masters? What gives? Do wives need to submit to the…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 83: Judy Stack - The Gospel of Matthew on Integrity & Hypocrisy
Season 3
What is Matthew all about? Why does it look the way it does? In this episode Judy Stack takes us to school and helps us to see the Gospel in a new li…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 82: Linda Kay Klein - Breaking Free From Purity Culture
Season 3
Having grown up being told her body was bad, Linda Kay Klein was on a mission to hear from women about their own experiences with Purity Culture. In …
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 81: Pete & Jared - Truth is Subjective . . . Even in the Bible
Season 3
When people find out that the Bible is ancient, ambiguous, and diverse, they often ask, "Is the Bible true then?" Pete and Jared dive into the topic …
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 80: Jonathan Walton - Reading the Bible Through the Lens of Love
Season 3
What does it mean to remain faithful to the Bible but also have a moral imagination that might extend beyond the Bible? How can that be done? We talk…
7 years, 4 months ago