Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#158 – A clash of wills in a Young Earth Creationist school system
Sparks fly when a Greek Orthodox evolution-accepting professor comes up against an Evangelical school headmaster bent on bringing in a Young Earth C…
1 year, 10 months ago
#157 – The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
“The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind” (opening sentence of chapter one)
It’s no secret that moder…
1 year, 10 months ago
#156 – An expert’s proposal for this religion-making software in my brain
In addition to enhancing hominid survival and reproduction, this software equipped us to become aware of and look for the Transcendent.
Once again…
1 year, 10 months ago
#155 – “Is it all just in my head?”
A retrospective journey through four years of episode releases had us asking this fundamental question. The short answer: of course it is!
A few …
1 year, 10 months ago
#154 – Eastern Orthodoxy, symbolism and mysticism
For some, the Bible takes on a deeper meaning when you read it less literally … exchanging certainty and rigidity for the fluidity of symbology, met…
1 year, 11 months ago
#153 – A post-Christendom Christianity
A northern Irish philosopher (who grew up in the 30-year war between “Protestants” and “Catholics”) gives us a whole new perspective on this ancient…
1 year, 11 months ago
#152 – Awe and spiritual experience, pt 2
An experimental psychologist and a theologian with a PhD in psychology give us their perspectives on the emotion of awe and its role in the spiritua…
1 year, 11 months ago
#151 – Awe, and the religious/spiritual experience
After a quick primer on this uniquely human phenomenon, we’ll hear from someone who had a profound, life-changing experience during a solar eclipse,…
1 year, 11 months ago
#150 – Human evolution and Christian theology
Many Christians can fully accept the idea of human evolution, but they use a language which betrays Young Earth Creationism. If we don’t update our…
2 years ago
#149 – Creating a new Christian worldview
A week after Easter 2024, and in response to questions from our listeners, we discuss a whole new perspective on who Jesus was, and what he gave the…
2 years ago