Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#187 – Adam had ancestors!?
Christianity’s response to discoveries of ancient hominids today is exactly the same as their response to previous discoveries of “non-Adamic” peopl…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
#186 – Christian theology and our hominid cousins
Do we need to update our theology in light of Christian-bigotry toward our genetic cousins?
During the millennia that Biblical characters were liv…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
#185 – Science education / science denial
The anniversaries of two pivotal legal cases brought by evolution deniers got us talking to the National Center for Science Education about their wo…
10 months ago
#184 – Brian McLaren’s journey
Time magazine’s pick for “most influential Evangelical in 2015” tells his own story of leaving behind traditional Evangelicalism.
Over the past fi…
10 months, 1 week ago
#183 – The paranormal and psychic phenomena
Are they just fun parlor tricks? Spiritual gifts and miracles like the ones we read in the Bible? Demonic manifestations? Or simply mind-over-mat…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
#182 – Why religion went obsolete !?
A Harvard-trained sociologist gives us far more than downward church attendance graphs and the “rise of the nones” that Pew and Gallup dish up
Non…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
#181 – Peter Enns and the control of orthodoxy
A theologian and professor at an Evangelical Theological Seminary describes a very unique, but instructive, “slippery slope” experience.
As promis…
11 months, 1 week ago
#180 – A Christian Nationalist pastor encounters Jesus on “the slippery slope”
One of our listeners tells his story of chipping away at Christian ideas, only to find a faith that feels more Christian.
This week and next, we’r…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
#179 – Humans can believe some pretty crazy things!
An exploration of belief, unbelief, delusion, and critical thinking, and some (coping) strategies in dealing with this peculiarity of being human.
…11 months, 3 weeks ago
#178 – What do you mean the Dark Ages never happened?
Many people think that the church burned scientists and their books during the Dark Ages; they would be wrong …. and here’s why
We’re still discus…
1 year ago