Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#49 – End of season 2
In this season finale, we take a look back at our journey with you. Boyd and I had planned to take it in one direction, but as all great conversa…
4 years, 11 months ago
#48 – Jesus and John Wayne
Over the last two weeks, we’ve looked at how the Gospel of Jesus was changed from being a message of love, forgiveness and liberation into one of …
4 years, 11 months ago
#47 – Religious trauma (pt 2)
In this second half of our look at religious trauma, we talk to Dr. Marlene Winell (PhD, Psychology), who literally wrote the book on this topic ……
5 years ago
#46 – Religious trauma (pt 1)
In the past few episodes, we’ve learned about the important role that other people play in one’s spiritual experience: we see, feel, and hear from…
5 years ago
#45 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 3
The neurobiology of the spiritual relationship is such a big topic, we thought it would be good to hear from a second scholar who comes at this fr…
5 years ago
#44 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 2
Having described the neurobiological mechanisms behind our relationships with other people, Dr. Smith then addressed our original question: “how d…
5 years ago
#43 – Neurobiology of spiritual experience – part 1
At this point in our mini-series looking at spiritual/religious experiences, we thought it would be good to understand how we perceive the rest of…
5 years ago
#42 – “Personal relationship”
Many Christians insist that this is the main thing that distinguishes Christianity from all other religions: “we have a personal relationship with…
5 years, 1 month ago
#41 – Scratching the itch
It’s a common phenomenon: people who say they’ve left the faith, but they just keep coming back to pick at it. It left a nasty wound, which has si…
5 years, 1 month ago
#40 – Mailbag#2: listeners’ responses to “Evangelicalism”
We did not anticipate two seemingly unrelated episodes would be so fertile, producing a mini-series of six episodes and a massive volume of listen…
5 years, 1 month ago