Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#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 …
1 year ago
#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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 2 months 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…
1 year, 2 months 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.
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