Podcast Episodes

#197 – updating the Exodus and Christian faith

A new understanding of the ancient story of Israel’s exodus out of Egypt leads to a whole new understanding of the Passover … and of the crucifixion…

7 months ago

#196 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 2 (re-release)

Science now makes the Sunday School version of this story no longer tenable, leaving three options for believers: ignore the problem, reject the Bib…

7 months ago

#195 – The Exodus from Egypt, part 1 (re-release)

Although the origin story for Jews, and the foundation for much of Christian theology, many scholars will ask: did it really happen (that way)?

Mo…

7 months, 1 week ago

#194 – The three existential threats of Dispensationalism

Last week we said this “mind-virus” could end up destroying the planet; this week we explain the three biggest reasons why/how.

Last week’s episo…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

#193 – The word that most have never heard of, but that could end up destroying our planet

Very few have heard of “Dispensationalism,” and fewer could give a paragraph-length definition of it, and yet it saturates Evangelical thinking and …

8 months ago

#192 – Looking back at S6 (and forward to S7?)

A retrospective on how well we achieved our goals for this season, and pondering whether we need to do some re-branding before the next!?

August i…

8 months, 1 week ago

#191 – A more human (and relatable) Jesus

Although Christians may say that “Jesus was fully human and fully divine,” many of them tend to slow-pedal the first half of that fundamental tenet.…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

#190 – Theological anthropology updated

It’s time to revise our picture of human origins, and the theology built up around the one handed down to us by authors and church fathers who knew …

9 months ago

#189 – Human morality has been evolving upwards!?

A committed secular humanist, two Christians (and a Jewish rabbi) compare perspectives on their agreed claim that human morality has been on the ups…

9 months, 1 week ago

#188 – Human evolution is just like the evolution of English

The questions “who was the first person to speak English?” and “who was the first human?” are equally ridiculous and unanswerable, and for the same …

9 months, 2 weeks ago